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 Lesotho and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1964 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and New York.
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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Toni Rubio to the rap 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 Robert Görl. All the underground hits.
All Swell Maps tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Q and Not U record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
ABC,
Yellowson,
Jacques Brel,
Funkadelic,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Tomorrow,
Alice Coltrane,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Youth Brigade,
The Cure,
The Walker Brothers,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Neon Judgement,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Nils Olav,
Jeru the Damaja,
The Pretty Things,
Jerry Gold Smith,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Bizarre Inc.,
Smog,
Ornette Coleman,
T.S.O.L.,
The Fortunes,
Cymande,
Outsiders,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
John Lydon,
Technova,
The Birthday Party,
Reagan Youth,
David Bowie,
Vainqueur,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Mo-Dettes,
Loose Ends,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
John Foxx,
Main Source,
Dead Boys,
Josef K,
Kayak,
the Soft Cell,
Andrew Hill,
The Count Five,
Bronski Beat,
Eddi Front,
Roxette,
Excepter,
Lightning Bolt,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Aloha Tigers,
Boredoms,
Maleditus Sound,
The Detroit Cobras,
China Crisis,
Camouflage,
D'Angelo,
Glenn Branca,
The Sonics,
X-101,
The Durutti Column, The Durutti Column, The Durutti Column, The Durutti Column.
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.