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 Paraguay and from Mumbai.
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 1960 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 linndrum 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 Index to the rap kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Wolf Eyes. All the underground hits.
All Rahsaan Roland Kirk tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kayak record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 synthesizer and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eric B and Rakim record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sister Nancy,
Gerry Rafferty,
Eric Copeland,
Metal Thangz,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Marcia Griffiths,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Isaac Hayes,
Delon & Dalcan,
Amon Düül,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Bill Wells,
Young Marble Giants,
Jimmy McGriff,
David Axelrod,
The Martian,
Gang Green,
Brothers Johnson,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
James White and The Blacks,
The Dave Clark Five,
Lalann,
LL Cool J,
Bobby Byrd,
The Move,
Man Eating Sloth,
Make Up,
Swell Maps,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Basic Channel,
Parry Music,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The Seeds,
Morten Harket,
Animal Collective,
The J.B.'s,
Peter & Gordon,
The Black Dice,
Guru Guru,
X-102,
Oblivians,
Fatback Band,
Lucky Dragons,
Kerri Chandler,
Jeru the Damaja,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Circle Jerks,
Banda Bassotti,
Zapp,
The American Breed,
Stiv Bators,
Aaron Thompson,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Janne Schatter,
Au Pairs,
The Five Americans,
Bluetip,
Joey Negro, Joey Negro, Joey Negro, Joey Negro.
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.