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 Taiwan and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Eden Ahbez to the rock kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Lalann. All the underground hits.
All Jeru the Damaja tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Deepchord record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a chamberlin 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 linndrum and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Laurel Aitken,
Johnny Clarke,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Roy Ayers,
DJ Sneak,
Joe Smooth,
These Immortal Souls,
Icehouse,
The Searchers,
The New Christs,
Howard Jones,
The Happenings,
Cameo,
Black Moon,
Barry Ungar,
Juan Atkins,
Ronnie Foster,
Ituana,
The Names,
Visage,
Circle Jerks,
The Raincoats,
Rod Modell,
Toni Rubio,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Y Pants,
Make Up,
The Smiths,
Skaos,
the Human League,
Shuggie Otis,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Gladiators,
Panda Bear,
The Busters,
The Angels of Light,
Sonic Youth,
X-101,
Funky Four + One,
Crispian St. Peters,
Popol Vuh,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Monolake,
The Monks,
Yusef Lateef,
Rapeman,
Yaz,
Infiniti,
Hashim,
Derrick Morgan,
Erykah Badu,
The Star Department,
Pylon,
Hardrive,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Letta Mbulu,
DJ Style,
Oblivians,
Mo-Dettes,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Ponytail,
F. McDonald,
Kerrie Biddell, Kerrie Biddell, Kerrie Biddell, Kerrie Biddell.
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.