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 Bahrain and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Kas Product to the disco kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Zero Boys. All the underground hits.
All Cheater Slicks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Peanut Butter Conspiracy record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sexual Harrassment record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
MC5,
Aswad,
Animal Collective,
ABBA,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
the Fania All-Stars,
Electric Prunes,
Chrome,
Hardrive,
Newcleus,
Roxy Music,
Brand Nubian,
Roger Hodgson,
Hot Snakes,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Underground Resistance,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
E-Dancer,
Tears for Fears,
Pierre Henry,
Archie Shepp,
KRS-One,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Simply Red,
Donny Hathaway,
Godley & Creme,
Blake Baxter,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Erykah Badu,
Joey Negro,
Iggy Pop,
Kevin Saunderson,
Soulsonic Force,
Fugazi,
LL Cool J,
The Monochrome Set,
PIL,
Sexual Harrassment,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Pere Ubu,
Man Parrish,
Blancmange,
Banda Bassotti,
Rosa Yemen,
Kerri Chandler,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Essential Logic,
Moby Grape,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Cybotron,
Ponytail,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Lindisfarne,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Scientists,
Eric Dolphy,
The Selecter,
The Young Rascals, The Young Rascals, The Young Rascals, The Young Rascals.
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.