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 Sierra Leone and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 harpsichord 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 Harmonia to the electroclash kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Fania All-Stars. All the underground hits.
All N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lower 48 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 synthesizer and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Drive Like Jehu record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Marvin Gaye,
Procol Harum,
Sandy B,
Sonic Youth,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Nik Kershaw,
Lee Hazlewood,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Sun Ra,
Liliput,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Robert Görl,
Connie Case,
Bootsy Collins,
Roy Ayers,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Susan Cadogan,
Swans,
Scratch Acid,
The Evens,
Television,
The Martian,
Jandek,
Mo-Dettes,
Silicon Teens,
The Beau Brummels,
EPMD,
The Residents,
Young Marble Giants,
Ralphi Rosario,
Depeche Mode,
Toni Rubio,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Q and Not U,
Maleditus Sound,
The Vogues,
Stetsasonic,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Gories,
Circle Jerks,
The Mighty Diamonds,
John Cale,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Monochrome Set,
Rosa Yemen,
Little Man,
The Mojo Men,
Basic Channel,
Hoover,
Piero Umiliani,
Pole,
Bizarre Inc.,
Gil Scott Heron,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Negative Approach,
Amon Düül,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Johnny Clarke,
Donny Hathaway,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Vaughan Mason & Crew, Vaughan Mason & Crew, Vaughan Mason & Crew, Vaughan Mason & Crew.
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.