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 Rwanda and from Accra.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Aural Exciters to the disco kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Golliwogs. All the underground hits.
All Robert Görl tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gregory Isaacs record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jeff Mills record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Young Marble Giants,
Massinfluence,
Technova,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Angry Samoans,
These Immortal Souls,
Mary Jane Girls,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Shadows of Knight,
Malaria!,
Sister Nancy,
Scion,
Henry Cow,
Surgeon,
The Raincoats,
Nik Kershaw,
Youth Brigade,
Zero Boys,
Gil Scott Heron,
Yaz,
Japan,
Yusef Lateef,
The Litter,
Negative Approach,
A Flock of Seagulls,
World's Most,
Audionom,
Brass Construction,
Sällskapet,
The Fugs,
Aural Exciters,
La Düsseldorf,
Deadbeat,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Dave Gahan,
Girls At Our Best!,
Make Up,
Eve St. Jones,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Fuzztones,
Gichy Dan,
Slave,
Andrew Hill,
The Pop Group,
Infiniti,
Sun City Girls,
The Gun Club,
Amon Düül II,
Robert Görl,
The Offenders,
Iggy Pop,
Glambeats Corp.,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Kayak,
Heaven 17,
Soft Machine,
Sonic Youth,
Y Pants,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Circle Jerks,
Jawbox,
Darondo,
Peter and Kerry,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.