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 Finland and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Fad Gadget to the grunge kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Black Moon. All the underground hits.
All Schoolly D tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Boz Scaggs 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Swell Maps record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Slits,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Silicon Teens,
Kenny Larkin,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Thompson Twins,
Marvin Gaye,
Mark Hollis,
Half Japanese,
The Moleskins,
Roger Hodgson,
Warren Ellis,
Unrelated Segments,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Swans,
New Age Steppers,
Brick,
Sällskapet,
Rapeman,
Procol Harum,
Derrick Morgan,
Charles Mingus,
Section 25,
The Five Americans,
New Order,
Los Fastidios,
One Last Wish,
The Associates,
Cameo,
Yazoo,
The Leaves,
Danielle Patucci,
Junior Murvin,
John Coltrane,
8 Eyed Spy,
The Standells,
John Cale,
Stockholm Monsters,
Juan Atkins,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Last Poets,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
MC5,
Pantytec,
Graham Central Station,
Toni Rubio,
June Days,
Adolescents,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Sex Pistols,
Ituana,
Arthur Verocai,
Technova,
Barrington Levy,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Move,
Yellowson,
Rosa Yemen,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Interpol,
Fugazi,
Ajijia Myrayebe, Ajijia Myrayebe, Ajijia Myrayebe, Ajijia Myrayebe.
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.