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 Taiwan and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1965 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the snare 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 Heavy D & The Boyz to the rock kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Radio Birdman. All the underground hits.
All The Busters tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dennis Brown 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Zero Boys record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Talk Talk,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Main Source,
Banda Bassotti,
T.S.O.L.,
The Gap Band,
Janne Schatter,
Desert Stars,
Tommy Roe,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Happenings,
Cymande,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Arcadia,
Bronski Beat,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
China Crisis,
Reagan Youth,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Duran Duran,
Gichy Dan,
Isaac Hayes,
the Association,
Brass Construction,
MDC,
Mo-Dettes,
These Immortal Souls,
Flamin' Groovies,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Jawbox,
Zapp,
Gang Starr,
Jeru the Damaja,
Marcia Griffiths,
Amazonics,
Japan,
Ultimate Spinach,
Lalann,
Curtis Mayfield,
Oneida,
James White and The Blacks,
Donny Hathaway,
The Barracudas,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Tom Boy,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Radiopuhelimet,
Minny Pops,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Kaleidoscope,
Shuggie Otis,
Monolake,
Interpol,
Black Pus,
Eric Dolphy,
The Pretty Things,
Ronan,
Procol Harum,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam.
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.