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 United States and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1964 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 1976 at the first Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the snare 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 Ultramagnetic MC's to the electroclash kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Nik Kershaw. All the underground hits.
All Avey Tare tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Oneida record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sonny Sharrock record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
X-101,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Techniques,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Trumans Water,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Television,
Tropical Tobacco,
Swans,
Pulsallama,
Nik Kershaw,
The Durutti Column,
Ludus,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Ituana,
48th St. Collective,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Eden Ahbez,
Jeff Mills,
Grauzone,
Kevin Saunderson,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Motorama,
Joe Smooth,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Cal Tjader,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Skarface,
Talk Talk,
Spoonie Gee,
Slave,
Sarah Menescal,
The Beau Brummels,
Ponytail,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Trojans,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
R.M.O.,
Schoolly D,
Agitation Free,
Subhumans,
Todd Terry,
Yusef Lateef,
Jimmy McGriff,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Frankie Knuckles,
Circle Jerks,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Piero Umiliani,
Gregory Isaacs,
Fela Kuti,
Kerri Chandler,
Matthew Halsall,
Delon & Dalcan,
Little Man,
Easy Going,
Scan 7,
Colin Newman,
Juan Atkins, Juan Atkins, Juan Atkins, Juan Atkins.
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.