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 Malta and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1962 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 Fat Boys to the jazz kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Unrelated Segments. All the underground hits.
All Youth Brigade tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every K-Klass 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Germs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Japan,
E-Dancer,
R.M.O.,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
K-Klass,
The Black Dice,
Bizarre Inc.,
Godley & Creme,
Kas Product,
The Velvet Underground,
Tubeway Army,
ABC,
Agent Orange,
Jawbox,
Section 25,
The Alarm Clocks,
Mars,
Derrick May,
Essential Logic,
Jerry's Kids,
AZ,
Bob Dylan,
Niagra,
Janne Schatter,
Derrick Morgan,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Charles Mingus,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Cal Tjader,
Sugar Minott,
Faraquet,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Buckinghams,
Wally Richardson,
David McCallum,
Subhumans,
Kerri Chandler,
Kevin Saunderson,
Cheater Slicks,
Grey Daturas,
Swell Maps,
MDC,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
FM Einheit,
Kenny Larkin,
The Wake,
The Sonics,
Idris Muhammad,
Junior Murvin,
Kool Moe Dee,
Man Parrish,
Boogie Down Productions,
Mary Jane Girls,
Robert Hood,
Smog,
48th St. Collective,
Erykah Badu,
Newcleus,
Iggy Pop,
Todd Terry,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth.
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.