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 Croatia and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1962 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Glasgow.
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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Alison Limerick to the dance kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Ajijia Myrayebe. All the underground hits.
All Peter & Gordon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 guitar and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Buckinghams record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Skriet,
In Retrospect,
The Pretty Things,
Little Man,
The Standells,
Archie Shepp,
Girls At Our Best!,
Avey Tare,
Anakelly,
Main Source,
Black Bananas,
Brick,
Depeche Mode,
Ronan,
Blancmange,
Vladislav Delay,
The Blackbyrds,
Negative Approach,
Gregory Isaacs,
MDC,
Bill Wells,
Amon Düül,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Alphaville,
The Index,
Whodini,
Mo-Dettes,
Lakeside,
Aswad,
Thee Headcoats,
The Buckinghams,
The Cramps,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Johnny Osbourne,
8 Eyed Spy,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Glambeats Corp.,
Kas Product,
Neil Young,
Au Pairs,
LL Cool J,
the Swans,
Stockholm Monsters,
Ice-T,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
The Mummies,
Neu!,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The United States of America,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Toni Rubio,
Isaac Hayes,
Agitation Free,
The Walker Brothers,
Public Enemy,
Reuben Wilson,
Tres Demented,
The Happenings,
Pharoah Sanders, Pharoah Sanders, Pharoah Sanders, Pharoah Sanders.
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.