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 Iceland and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1962 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Camberwell Now to the grunge kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Searchers. All the underground hits.
All the Slits tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Darondo record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gil Scott Heron record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
kango's stein massive,
The Blues Magoos,
Roxette,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Buckinghams,
Isaac Hayes,
Circle Jerks,
Chris & Cosey,
Joe Finger,
Janne Schatter,
8 Eyed Spy,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Marine Girls,
Judy Mowatt,
The Mummies,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Goldenarms,
The Sound,
Lee Hazlewood,
Swell Maps,
Marmalade,
The Vogues,
a-ha,
Rhythm & Sound,
Big Daddy Kane,
Pole,
Vainqueur,
Ponytail,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Smiths,
Pulsallama,
Fela Kuti,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Monks,
The Evens,
Boogie Down Productions,
Bush Tetras,
Traffic Nightmare,
Section 25,
Panda Bear,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Mad Mike,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Residents,
Althea and Donna,
Minutemen,
Deadbeat,
Sun City Girls,
Symarip,
Arcadia,
Make Up,
Electric Light Orchestra,
AZ,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Nirvana,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel.
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.