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 India and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Schoolly D to the rock 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 Crash Course in Science. All the underground hits.
All Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Agitation Free record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kayak,
Camberwell Now,
Maurizio,
Yaz,
Judy Mowatt,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
MC5,
Jacob Miller,
Beasts of Bourbon,
X-102,
Rufus Thomas,
Siglo XX,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Quantec,
The Dirtbombs,
Unrelated Segments,
Rod Modell,
Joensuu 1685,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The Wake,
Yusef Lateef,
Depeche Mode,
The Selecter,
U.S. Maple,
Sixth Finger,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Monks,
The Skatalites,
Blancmange,
Roy Ayers,
The Trojans,
The Fire Engines,
Lee Hazlewood,
Swell Maps,
Pantaleimon,
Q and Not U,
Bang On A Can,
In Retrospect,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Dennis Brown,
Godley & Creme,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Buckinghams,
Mr. Review,
Q65,
The Moody Blues,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Negative Approach,
Public Enemy,
Brothers Johnson,
The Alarm Clocks,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Junior Murvin,
Half Japanese,
Gerry Rafferty,
Boz Scaggs,
Jandek,
JFA,
D'Angelo,
Peter and Kerry, Peter and Kerry, Peter and Kerry, Peter and Kerry.
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.