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 Equatorial Guinea and from Spokane.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Sixth Finger to the grime kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience. All the underground hits.
All Alphaville tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every EPMD record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Knickerbockers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bad Manners,
Mars,
Trumans Water,
Iggy Pop,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
K-Klass,
Al Stewart,
8 Eyed Spy,
Scan 7,
Camouflage,
Kurtis Blow,
The Modern Lovers,
Glambeats Corp.,
John Cale,
Mary Jane Girls,
Absolute Body Control,
Liliput,
Ash Ra Tempel,
June of 44,
Terry Callier,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Can,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Ludus,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Brass Construction,
The Associates,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Young Marble Giants,
Nation of Ulysses,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Rotary Connection,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Hardrive,
Gong,
The Happenings,
Schoolly D,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Infiniti,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Divine Comedy,
Eric Dolphy,
Pussy Galore,
Organ,
Neil Young,
Bronski Beat,
Sexual Harrassment,
Newcleus,
Alice Coltrane,
Mo-Dettes,
Gerry Rafferty,
Frankie Knuckles,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Ultravox,
Easy Going,
Guru Guru,
Big Daddy Kane,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Accadde A,
Icehouse,
The Angels of Light, The Angels of Light, The Angels of Light, The Angels of Light.
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.