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 France and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1969 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 The Birthday Party to the rock kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Hasil Adkins. All the underground hits.
All The Zeros tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Black Dice record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Unwound record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
kango's stein massive,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Youth Brigade,
Steve Hackett,
Brand Nubian,
Marc Almond,
Public Enemy,
The Index,
OOIOO,
David McCallum,
Essential Logic,
The Martian,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The Cure,
The J.B.'s,
Brothers Johnson,
Beasts of Bourbon,
The Misunderstood,
Pharoah Sanders,
Colin Newman,
Skaos,
Flipper,
Swell Maps,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Grey Daturas,
Flamin' Groovies,
the Soft Cell,
Rakim,
Surgeon,
The Blues Magoos,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Negative Approach,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The Searchers,
David Axelrod,
Sonny Sharrock,
Roy Ayers,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
DJ Sneak,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Altered Images,
Camouflage,
Ultravox,
Half Japanese,
June Days,
Outsiders,
The United States of America,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Blake Baxter,
Soulsonic Force,
Monolake,
Ice-T,
Yaz,
Liliput,
the Fania All-Stars,
Barry Ungar,
MC5,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band.
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.