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 India and from Sao Paulo.
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 1966 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Essential Logic to the rap kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 X-Ray Spex. All the underground hits.
All Main Source tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Porter Ricks record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Wolf Eyes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe 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 Kinks,
Thompson Twins,
John Lydon,
Don Cherry,
Nation of Ulysses,
Deepchord,
Hasil Adkins,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Alton Ellis,
The Walker Brothers,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Avey Tare,
Aaron Thompson,
Ten City,
Pole,
The Grass Roots,
the Association,
The Velvet Underground,
Soul II Soul,
Pere Ubu,
Au Pairs,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Outsiders,
Davy DMX,
The United States of America,
Todd Rundgren,
The Searchers,
Minny Pops,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Guru Guru,
Bob Dylan,
Gang Starr,
Joy Division,
Scrapy,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Lou Reed,
Sun City Girls,
Y Pants,
Lindisfarne,
Sun Ra,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Camberwell Now,
Marc Almond,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Trumans Water,
Accadde A,
The Fortunes,
The Count Five,
Idris Muhammad,
Juan Atkins,
Quando Quango,
Flash Fearless,
Radiohead,
Kaleidoscope,
Jeru the Damaja,
Kerri Chandler,
Ice-T,
Inner City,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Gong,
LL Cool J, LL Cool J, LL Cool J, LL Cool J.
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.