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 Chile and from Seoul.
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 1966 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 June of 44 to the jazz 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 Y Pants. All the underground hits.
All Massinfluence tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every David Bowie record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a JFA record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gang Starr,
The Grass Roots,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Barry Ungar,
Rufus Thomas,
Main Source,
The Fire Engines,
Aswad,
The Move,
CMW,
Todd Terry,
The Tremeloes,
DJ Style,
Eli Mardock,
The Busters,
Saccharine Trust,
Spandau Ballet,
Animal Collective,
Marmalade,
Kevin Saunderson,
Thee Headcoats,
LL Cool J,
Scientists,
The Detroit Cobras,
Carl Craig,
Al Stewart,
Marcia Griffiths,
Stockholm Monsters,
Graham Central Station,
Stetsasonic,
A Certain Ratio,
The Motions,
Marine Girls,
Talk Talk,
Bush Tetras,
The Fuzztones,
Rotary Connection,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Radio Birdman,
David McCallum,
The Sound,
Sparks,
Altered Images,
Nirvana,
Panda Bear,
X-102,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Knickerbockers,
The New Christs,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Fugs,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
KRS-One,
Sixth Finger,
Chris & Cosey,
Los Fastidios,
Lalo Schifrin,
Pagans,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
John Coltrane,
Crispy Ambulance,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Sun Ra, Sun Ra, Sun Ra, Sun Ra.
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.