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 Azerbaijan and from Salvador.
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 1967 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Pole to the crunk 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 Soul Sonic Force. All the underground hits.
All Tom Boy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Hardrive 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Neu! record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Y Pants,
The Doors,
Scratch Acid,
The Last Poets,
The J.B.'s,
New Order,
China Crisis,
The Leaves,
the Fania All-Stars,
Marc Almond,
Jawbox,
Tim Buckley,
Magazine,
The Stooges,
Ten City,
Davy DMX,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Pulsallama,
PIL,
Lindisfarne,
Warsaw,
Gang Green,
E-Dancer,
Bobby Womack,
Mark Hollis,
Jandek,
Prince Buster,
Pagans,
Heaven 17,
Joyce Sims,
Dead Boys,
Ultra Naté,
Moebius,
Sarah Menescal,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Sonic Youth,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Martian,
Dawn Penn,
Yaz,
Shoche,
Subhumans,
Mandrill,
The Zeros,
Peter and Kerry,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Drexciya,
Grey Daturas,
The Fuzztones,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Cluster,
Derrick May,
Toni Rubio,
48th St. Collective,
LL Cool J,
Theoretical Girls,
Deepchord,
Barrington Levy,
Johnny Clarke,
World's Most,
The Gap Band,
Johnny Osbourne, Johnny Osbourne, Johnny Osbourne, Johnny Osbourne.
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.