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 Austria and from Mumbai.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 The Invisible to the crunk 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 Fall. All the underground hits.
All Symarip tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Infiniti 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Deepchord record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Modern Lovers,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
D'Angelo,
Rekid,
Whodini,
Warren Ellis,
Arcadia,
Ultra Naté,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Intrusion,
Tomorrow,
Moby Grape,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Toni Rubio,
KRS-One,
The Young Rascals,
Absolute Body Control,
Janne Schatter,
Altered Images,
Rapeman,
Suburban Knight,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Zapp,
Jeru the Damaja,
Adolescents,
Junior Murvin,
Marshall Jefferson,
DNA,
The American Breed,
Parry Music,
Alton Ellis,
Infiniti,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Ohio Players,
Buzzcocks,
Barry Ungar,
Magma,
John Cale,
Grauzone,
10cc,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Mo-Dettes,
Underground Resistance,
The Five Americans,
Audionom,
Y Pants,
Wasted Youth,
Brick,
Unwound,
Chris Corsano,
Country Teasers,
Echospace,
The Golliwogs,
Skarface,
Marmalade,
Livin' Joy,
Mad Mike,
Amon Düül,
Khruangbin,
Blake Baxter,
Amon Düül II,
Eric Dolphy, Eric Dolphy, Eric Dolphy, Eric Dolphy.
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.