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 Qatar and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1961 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme to the jazz 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 The Mighty Diamonds. All the underground hits.
All the Germs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 an organ and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Shadows of Knight record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
R.M.O.,
Hardrive,
Janne Schatter,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Sex Pistols,
Patti Smith,
Urselle,
Fatback Band,
Magma,
The Victims,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Hot Snakes,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Warsaw,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
A Certain Ratio,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Dead C,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Robert Görl,
Camouflage,
Skriet,
New Order,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Blake Baxter,
Con Funk Shun,
Scratch Acid,
Idris Muhammad,
Faraquet,
The Remains,
Davy DMX,
Ten City,
Cheater Slicks,
Piero Umiliani,
Kool Moe Dee,
Gang Gang Dance,
Flash Fearless,
Byron Stingily,
Electric Prunes,
The Sound,
Niagra,
The Martian,
The Gories,
New York Dolls,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Accadde A,
Toni Rubio,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Sun City Girls,
Aloha Tigers,
Basic Channel,
Arcadia,
Aural Exciters,
the Slits,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo, Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo, Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo, Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo.
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.