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 Bolivia and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1967 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 guitar 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 Tropical Tobacco to the rap kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Darondo. All the underground hits.
All Sarah Menescal tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Terry Callier record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Skriet record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sun Ra,
Essential Logic,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Neon Judgement,
Ronan,
Monks,
Porter Ricks,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Angels of Light,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Crash Course in Science,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Simply Red,
Erasure,
Chris Corsano,
Lalo Schifrin,
Roy Ayers,
Lindisfarne,
Crispy Ambulance,
Boogie Down Productions,
Terry Callier,
Quando Quango,
Guru Guru,
Pagans,
Fluxion,
The Cramps,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Faust,
The Sonics,
Electric Prunes,
Section 25,
The United States of America,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Basic Channel,
Skarface,
Tubeway Army,
Scan 7,
Lower 48,
June Days,
Cymande,
Dave Gahan,
Gil Scott Heron,
Radiopuhelimet,
Absolute Body Control,
Ultravox,
Man Eating Sloth,
Cybotron,
Arthur Verocai,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Erykah Badu,
The Grass Roots,
Spandau Ballet,
Pere Ubu,
Quadrant,
Andrew Hill,
H. Thieme,
Soul Sonic Force,
the Human League,
Steve Hackett,
Aaron Thompson,
Nas,
Blake Baxter, Blake Baxter, Blake Baxter, Blake Baxter.
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.