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 Spain and from Paris.
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 1963 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Spokane.
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 Lou Reed 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 Sparks to the grunge 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 Albert Ayler. All the underground hits.
All Urselle tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Quantec record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Max Romeo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jesper Dahlback,
Aswad,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
A Certain Ratio,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Colin Newman,
Groovy Waters,
Babytalk,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
London Community Gospel Choir,
Wally Richardson,
Dawn Penn,
Brand Nubian,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Goldenarms,
DJ Sneak,
Delta 5,
Organ,
These Immortal Souls,
Ituana,
Juan Atkins,
Curtis Mayfield,
Roxy Music,
Black Moon,
Country Teasers,
The Evens,
Wasted Youth,
Eden Ahbez,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Victims,
Yaz,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
The Offenders,
The Cure,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Tremeloes,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Quadrant,
Ossler,
Quando Quango,
Carl Craig,
Faust,
Cymande,
Mr. Review,
Bobby Hutcherson,
LL Cool J,
Thompson Twins,
Eric Dolphy,
Sarah Menescal,
Television,
Brass Construction,
The Barracudas,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
T.S.O.L.,
The Electric Prunes,
Faraquet,
The Seeds,
Susan Cadogan,
Rufus Thomas, Rufus Thomas, Rufus Thomas, Rufus Thomas.
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.