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 Guinea and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1961 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the güiro 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 Pulsallama to the jazz 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 Joensuu 1685. All the underground hits.
All Livin' Joy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rhythm & Sound record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Harpers Bizarre,
Amazonics,
New Order,
Moebius,
Stiv Bators,
Ituana,
Surgeon,
The Gap Band,
Basic Channel,
Jimmy McGriff,
Yazoo,
Technova,
Fela Kuti,
Shuggie Otis,
Kurtis Blow,
Porter Ricks,
Ronan,
Outsiders,
Y Pants,
the Association,
Tomorrow,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Aswad,
Bobby Womack,
The J.B.'s,
Connie Case,
In Retrospect,
Graham Central Station,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Black Sheep,
Audionom,
Rotary Connection,
Roy Ayers,
Deepchord,
Lalo Schifrin,
Agitation Free,
Susan Cadogan,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Last Poets,
Cameo,
Soulsonic Force,
Goldenarms,
John Holt,
Radiohead,
Subhumans,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
UT,
The Divine Comedy,
Niagra,
Rosa Yemen,
Black Flag,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Crash Course in Science,
Index,
H. Thieme,
Swans,
Maurizio,
a-ha,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme, Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme, Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme, Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme.
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.