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 Burundi and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1960 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and London.
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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Cluster to the grime kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Scion. All the underground hits.
All The Move tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Dirtbombs 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Neil Young & Crazy Horse record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Qualms,
Sister Nancy,
Letta Mbulu,
Nils Olav,
Pantytec,
John Holt,
Glambeats Corp.,
Easy Going,
Amon Düül,
OOIOO,
Laurel Aitken,
Silicon Teens,
Erasure,
Ituana,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Gang Green,
Monks,
The Tremeloes,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Harpers Bizarre,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Searchers,
Brick,
Anthony Braxton,
The Leaves,
Country Teasers,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Jerry's Kids,
Newcleus,
Magma,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Velvet Underground,
The Stooges,
Flash Fearless,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Ultravox,
Spoonie Gee,
Au Pairs,
Unwound,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
the Sonics,
Peter and Kerry,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Brass Construction,
Eve St. Jones,
Rakim,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Kerri Chandler,
Gang Gang Dance,
Charles Mingus,
Soulsonic Force,
Amon Düül II,
The Five Americans,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Schoolly D,
Wally Richardson,
Lucky Dragons,
Cymande,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Yellowson,
Chris Corsano,
Moby Grape, Moby Grape, Moby Grape, Moby Grape.
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.