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 Jamaica and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the organ 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 Nation of Ulysses to the funk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Blossom Toes. All the underground hits.
All Simply Red tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Harry Pussy 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 an oboe and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Junior Murvin record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bang On A Can,
Lightning Bolt,
Cal Tjader,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Khruangbin,
Terrestrial Tones,
Stereo Dub,
The Mojo Men,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Minor Threat,
Eden Ahbez,
The Monochrome Set,
Magma,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Eurythmics,
the Fania All-Stars,
Dave Gahan,
8 Eyed Spy,
Tommy Roe,
Kas Product,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The Litter,
Minutemen,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
OOIOO,
Kurtis Blow,
Eli Mardock,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Crime,
The Fugs,
Ohio Players,
Lee Hazlewood,
Ultimate Spinach,
the Association,
Zero Boys,
Grandmaster Flash,
Jacques Brel,
The Dead C,
The Gladiators,
Mission of Burma,
Desert Stars,
Absolute Body Control,
Symarip,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Groovy Waters,
Gabor Szabo,
the Soft Cell,
Pussy Galore,
The Seeds,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Make Up,
Main Source,
World's Most,
Magazine,
Sex Pistols,
Letta Mbulu,
Roxette,
Tomorrow,
The Index,
The Saints,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.