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 Honduras and from Glasgow.
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 1967 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the sitar 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 One Last Wish to the disco 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 Quantec. All the underground hits.
All Man Parrish tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Zeros record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Aural Exciters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Sonics,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Camberwell Now,
Aural Exciters,
Country Teasers,
The Happenings,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Intrusion,
Electric Prunes,
The Red Krayola,
Soul Sonic Force,
Matthew Bourne,
Kenny Larkin,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Divine Comedy,
Alton Ellis,
The Pop Group,
Rakim,
Stetsasonic,
Pulsallama,
Outsiders,
The Monochrome Set,
Ponytail,
Banda Bassotti,
Thee Headcoats,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Grauzone,
Second Layer,
Spoonie Gee,
the Slits,
Negative Approach,
Magma,
Roxy Music,
Jacob Miller,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Average White Band,
DNA,
Massinfluence,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Archie Shepp,
The Slits,
Yusef Lateef,
Funky Four + One,
Anakelly,
Inner City,
The Fire Engines,
Pharoah Sanders,
T.S.O.L.,
the Swans,
Lightning Bolt,
Deakin,
Jacques Brel,
The Star Department,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Marcia Griffiths,
Sandy B,
The Gories,
Joey Negro,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Trojans,
Hasil Adkins, Hasil Adkins, Hasil Adkins, Hasil Adkins.
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.