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 Brunei and from Salvador.
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 1963 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Lyon.
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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Bizarre Inc. to the jazz 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 Drive Like Jehu. All the underground hits.
All Little Man tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Zero Boys record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 sitar and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rahsaan Roland Kirk record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Girls At Our Best!,
Altered Images,
The Standells,
Lebanon Hanover,
Intrusion,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Au Pairs,
Stereo Dub,
Erykah Badu,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Drive Like Jehu,
Excepter,
Bad Manners,
Kas Product,
Roxy Music,
Half Japanese,
Tubeway Army,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
LL Cool J,
The Young Rascals,
Buzzcocks,
Unwound,
the Fania All-Stars,
Deepchord,
Lakeside,
Bobby Sherman,
Neu!,
Connie Case,
The Tremeloes,
Unrelated Segments,
UT,
Loose Ends,
the Germs,
Juan Atkins,
Moss Icon,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Sixth Finger,
The Martian,
Jimmy McGriff,
Flash Fearless,
Gang Gang Dance,
Fear,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Joey Negro,
Groovy Waters,
Bizarre Inc.,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Marc Almond,
Minor Threat,
Easy Going,
Absolute Body Control,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Graham Central Station,
The Doors,
Frankie Knuckles,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Little Man,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Pantytec,
Tim Buckley,
Spoonie Gee, Spoonie Gee, Spoonie Gee, Spoonie Gee.
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.