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 Lithuania and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the sitar 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 The Vogues to the techno kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Iggy Pop. All the underground hits.
All Gabor Szabo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Motorama record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kool G Rap & DJ Polo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Martian,
Schoolly D,
Malaria!,
Moebius,
Barclay James Harvest,
Rufus Thomas,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The American Breed,
Kaleidoscope,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Dirtbombs,
Colin Newman,
Spoonie Gee,
Ponytail,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Lyres,
Danielle Patucci,
Black Moon,
The Slackers,
Prince Buster,
Ohio Players,
The Remains,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Albert Ayler,
The Buckinghams,
Bronski Beat,
Minutemen,
World's Most,
Skriet,
Masters at Work,
Groovy Waters,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Scrapy,
Ronan,
Rapeman,
Wings,
The Motions,
Suburban Knight,
Mo-Dettes,
Maurizio,
The Gladiators,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
T. Rex,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Detroit Cobras,
Scott Walker,
Todd Terry,
R.M.O.,
Arcadia,
Brand Nubian,
Panda Bear,
Marmalade,
Slave,
Interpol,
Wire, Wire, Wire, Wire.
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.