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 Cyprus and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Sao Paulo.
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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the organ 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 Glambeats Corp. to the dance 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 The Divine Comedy. All the underground hits.
All Heaven 17 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Swans record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Heavy D & The Boyz record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Laurel Aitken,
Subhumans,
Crash Course in Science,
Blake Baxter,
Dawn Penn,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Scott Walker,
Y Pants,
Mark Hollis,
The Birthday Party,
Gregory Isaacs,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Donald Byrd,
DNA,
The Leaves,
The Golliwogs,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Warren Ellis,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Shuggie Otis,
John Coltrane,
Ronan,
Flamin' Groovies,
Deadbeat,
The Knickerbockers,
Ituana,
Brand Nubian,
London Community Gospel Choir,
The Selecter,
Cameo,
Lucky Dragons,
Basic Channel,
The Names,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Andrew Hill,
Eric Copeland,
Von Mondo,
Chrome,
Jerry's Kids,
Piero Umiliani,
Yusef Lateef,
Deakin,
Fela Kuti,
Boogie Down Productions,
Jeru the Damaja,
Barrington Levy,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Nas,
Q65,
Bizarre Inc.,
Das Ding,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Sexual Harrassment,
The United States of America,
Alton Ellis,
KRS-One,
Minnie Riperton,
Tres Demented,
Matthew Halsall,
Supertramp,
Panda Bear,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band.
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.