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 Indonesia and from Tehran.
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 1964 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the sitar 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 Kas Product to the funk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Unrelated Segments. All the underground hits.
All Prince Buster tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Soft Cell record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Godley & Creme record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Silicon Teens,
Charles Mingus,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Move,
Unrelated Segments,
Boredoms,
The Gories,
The Five Americans,
Crispian St. Peters,
Spoonie Gee,
the Fania All-Stars,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Aaron Thompson,
Neu!,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Minutemen,
Television,
Brick,
Moebius,
Quadrant,
Niagra,
Al Stewart,
John Coltrane,
Masters at Work,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Johnny Clarke,
Nick Fraelich,
The Moleskins,
Television Personalities,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Pet Shop Boys,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The Neon Judgement,
Rufus Thomas,
Mantronix,
Y Pants,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Bobby Womack,
Tres Demented,
kango's stein massive,
L. Decosne,
The Happenings,
Goldenarms,
Vladislav Delay,
Technova,
Bizarre Inc.,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Howard Jones,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
World's Most,
David McCallum,
Surgeon,
Dennis Brown,
Trumans Water,
Jandek,
Pylon,
Ultra Naté,
Tears for Fears, Tears for Fears, Tears for Fears, Tears for Fears.
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.