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 Nigeria and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1964 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 Donald Fagen 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 Pretty Things to the disco kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Man Eating Sloth. All the underground hits.
All Eyeless In Gaza tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dark Day 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Carl Craig record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Todd Rundgren,
Robert Görl,
Barrington Levy,
The Invisible,
10cc,
Tim Buckley,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Laurel Aitken,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Marc Almond,
Marshall Jefferson,
Todd Terry,
Moby Grape,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Aural Exciters,
Suicide,
Faraquet,
Jerry's Kids,
Alice Coltrane,
Blossom Toes,
8 Eyed Spy,
Colin Newman,
Althea and Donna,
Pharoah Sanders,
Bootsy Collins,
June of 44,
Trumans Water,
Bizarre Inc.,
Nico,
Blake Baxter,
Kerrie Biddell,
Dave Gahan,
Glenn Branca,
Lakeside,
Eurythmics,
Scientists,
Echospace,
Tubeway Army,
The J.B.'s,
MC5,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Metal Thangz,
Public Enemy,
The Fortunes,
Man Eating Sloth,
Dark Day,
Peter and Kerry,
Guru Guru,
the Human League,
EPMD,
Sun Ra,
Tropical Tobacco,
Cymande,
Ten City,
The Monochrome Set,
The Names,
Skarface,
Thompson Twins,
Scratch Acid,
The Sound,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon.
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.