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 Armenia and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1966 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane to the techno kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 The Red Krayola. All the underground hits.
All Vladislav Delay tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Major Organ And The Adding Machine 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter & Gordon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Fort Wilson Riot,
The Mojo Men,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Hot Snakes,
Livin' Joy,
Boz Scaggs,
Lebanon Hanover,
Gang Starr,
CMW,
Jacques Brel,
Pet Shop Boys,
Eden Ahbez,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
The Saints,
Al Stewart,
PIL,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Isaac Hayes,
Pierre Henry,
Silicon Teens,
Andrew Hill,
Josef K,
Zero Boys,
Johnny Osbourne,
Cecil Taylor,
Aswad,
Echospace,
Suburban Knight,
Groovy Waters,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Trumans Water,
FM Einheit,
Black Moon,
Soft Cell,
Kayak,
Grandmaster Flash,
Angry Samoans,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Second Layer,
Jeff Lynne,
The Flesh Eaters,
James White and The Blacks,
Quadrant,
The Misunderstood,
The Associates,
Das Ding,
Don Cherry,
Harpers Bizarre,
Easy Going,
Piero Umiliani,
Juan Atkins,
Barbara Tucker,
Glambeats Corp.,
Freddie Wadling,
Crooked Eye,
Stetsasonic,
T.S.O.L.,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
The Monks,
Kenny Larkin,
Harry Pussy,
Black Sheep,
Eve St. Jones,
Bluetip, Bluetip, Bluetip, Bluetip.
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.