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 Oman and from Jakarta.
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 1968 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Halifax.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 Davy DMX to the rap kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Essential Logic. All the underground hits.
All Kings Of Tomorrow tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nirvana record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Interpol record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Velvet Underground,
Agitation Free,
The Offenders,
Swans,
Jerry's Kids,
Yazoo,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Joe Smooth,
Skaos,
Circle Jerks,
Boz Scaggs,
Gang of Four,
Lee Hazlewood,
Isaac Hayes,
The Divine Comedy,
Eric B and Rakim,
Jeff Lynne,
Crooked Eye,
Rod Modell,
Moby Grape,
The Doobie Brothers,
Talk Talk,
Arthur Verocai,
Gastr Del Sol,
Quadrant,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Slick Rick,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Main Source,
The Golliwogs,
John Cale,
The Stooges,
Gabor Szabo,
Peter & Gordon,
Sällskapet,
DJ Sneak,
The Knickerbockers,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Cal Tjader,
10cc,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Massinfluence,
Pet Shop Boys,
A Certain Ratio,
Goldenarms,
Brand Nubian,
Desert Stars,
Yaz,
Anthony Braxton,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Man Eating Sloth,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Radio Birdman,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Jeru the Damaja,
Fat Boys,
Fifty Foot Hose, Fifty Foot Hose, Fifty Foot Hose, Fifty Foot Hose.
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.