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 Poland and from Manchester.
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 1969 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Barracudas to the funk 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 David McCallum. All the underground hits.
All The Beau Brummels tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every John Coltrane record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 harpsichord and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Grauzone record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Public Image Ltd.,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Smog,
Jerry's Kids,
Black Sheep,
B.T. Express,
Cal Tjader,
Marvin Gaye,
Dorothy Ashby,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Funkadelic,
Scion,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Bobby Sherman,
Dual Sessions,
The Shadows of Knight,
Spandau Ballet,
Fatback Band,
Visage,
Lightning Bolt,
Michelle Simonal,
ABBA,
Terry Callier,
Silicon Teens,
Lou Reed,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
the Fania All-Stars,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Malaria!,
Agent Orange,
Motorama,
Von Mondo,
The Fugs,
The Skatalites,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Dave Clark Five,
Brothers Johnson,
The Beau Brummels,
Young Marble Giants,
Liliput,
Kenny Larkin,
Dawn Penn,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Urselle,
Warsaw,
Au Pairs,
Mad Mike,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Nico,
Grey Daturas,
Lalo Schifrin,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Sonny Sharrock,
Swans,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Shuggie Otis,
Amazonics,
Jacob Miller,
Second Layer,
La Düsseldorf, La Düsseldorf, La Düsseldorf, La Düsseldorf.
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.