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 Cape Verde and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1968 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Black Sheep to the punk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Public Enemy. All the underground hits.
All PIL tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Radiohead record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Scan 7 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
A Certain Ratio,
The Misunderstood,
Gong,
Main Source,
One Last Wish,
Sarah Menescal,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Parry Music,
Jeff Lynne,
Oblivians,
Michelle Simonal,
Delta 5,
The United States of America,
Fluxion,
Sun City Girls,
Girls At Our Best!,
UT,
Susan Cadogan,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Gichy Dan,
Idris Muhammad,
Icehouse,
Mr. Review,
Todd Terry,
Sun Ra,
David McCallum,
The Tremeloes,
Unrelated Segments,
Kerri Chandler,
Subhumans,
Dave Gahan,
Yaz,
Hoover,
Saccharine Trust,
World's Most,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
This Heat,
MC5,
Roxy Music,
Average White Band,
The Blackbyrds,
Intrusion,
the Sonics,
Deadbeat,
Jawbox,
Man Parrish,
Andrew Hill,
Letta Mbulu,
Blossom Toes,
Rekid,
Television,
Carl Craig,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The Fuzztones,
Matthew Bourne,
Rakim,
Bronski Beat,
Hasil Adkins,
Yazoo,
FM Einheit,
Depeche Mode,
The Angels of Light,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon.
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.