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 Turkmenistan and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1965 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 mellotron 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 Soul II Soul to the funk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 New Age Steppers. All the underground hits.
All 48th St. Collective tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane 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 theremin and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Yellowson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Doors,
Vainqueur,
R.M.O.,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Bootsy Collins,
The Invisible,
kango's stein massive,
Maleditus Sound,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Boredoms,
Dual Sessions,
U.S. Maple,
Donny Hathaway,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
F. McDonald,
One Last Wish,
Duran Duran,
B.T. Express,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Minnie Riperton,
Donald Byrd,
Yusef Lateef,
Derrick May,
The Blues Magoos,
A Certain Ratio,
The Fugs,
Stereo Dub,
UT,
Lou Reed,
Joy Division,
Graham Central Station,
Robert Wyatt,
The Golliwogs,
Lebanon Hanover,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Hasil Adkins,
Rekid,
Franke,
Eric Copeland,
Mark Hollis,
The Smoke,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Amon Düül,
the Association,
Unwound,
Bronski Beat,
Wire,
Soft Cell,
Rakim,
Scott Walker,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Bobby Sherman,
10cc,
Lou Christie,
Drexciya,
Amon Düül II,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
David Axelrod,
Blossom Toes,
Kerri Chandler,
EPMD,
the Slits,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.