Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Denmark and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1961 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Motorama to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by 48th St. Collective. All the underground hits.
All CMW tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Avey Tare record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a cv313 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scientists,
Henry Cow,
Young Marble Giants,
The Techniques,
Barclay James Harvest,
Rhythm & Sound,
Section 25,
Eric Copeland,
Jeff Mills,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
John Cale,
Aloha Tigers,
Delta 5,
The Alarm Clocks,
Skaos,
Barbara Tucker,
Glambeats Corp.,
Saccharine Trust,
The Beau Brummels,
Marine Girls,
Quando Quango,
Joe Smooth,
The Durutti Column,
Second Layer,
EPMD,
Jacob Miller,
Thee Headcoats,
Agitation Free,
Mandrill,
Lalann,
Wasted Youth,
X-102,
Nils Olav,
The Cure,
Skriet,
Stockholm Monsters,
Liliput,
The Dead C,
ABC,
Peter and Kerry,
Donald Byrd,
Massinfluence,
Jesper Dahlback,
Cameo,
Soul II Soul,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Brass Construction,
The Busters,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Vogues,
Kaleidoscope,
Thompson Twins,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Joy Division,
Intrusion,
The Grass Roots,
Pantaleimon,
Neu!,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Raincoats,
Bill Wells,
Robert Görl,
Buzzcocks, Buzzcocks, Buzzcocks, Buzzcocks.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.