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 United Kingdom and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Jakarta.
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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Oneida to the dance 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 Slave. All the underground hits.
All The Names tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Robert Wyatt 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ultravox record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Glenn Branca,
Terrestrial Tones,
Toni Rubio,
Arcadia,
Livin' Joy,
Crooked Eye,
Stockholm Monsters,
Scratch Acid,
Can,
These Immortal Souls,
Radio Birdman,
X-101,
the Bar-Kays,
Liliput,
Unwound,
ABBA,
Basic Channel,
Wasted Youth,
Yaz,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Ultimate Spinach,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Joe Finger,
Tropical Tobacco,
Bobby Sherman,
Urselle,
Scrapy,
cv313,
Nirvana,
The Wake,
The Walker Brothers,
Amon Düül II,
Howard Jones,
One Last Wish,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Prince Buster,
Black Moon,
Eric B and Rakim,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Minny Pops,
Deadbeat,
Royal Trux,
Blake Baxter,
Alice Coltrane,
Michelle Simonal,
The Gap Band,
10cc,
The Dave Clark Five,
Electric Light Orchestra,
U.S. Maple,
Tubeway Army,
Das Ding,
Youth Brigade,
Big Daddy Kane,
EPMD,
Metal Thangz,
Thompson Twins,
Bad Manners,
LL Cool J,
Nas,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell.
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.