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 Sierra Leone and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic 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 1969 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the sitar 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 Don Cherry to the grime kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Cowsills. All the underground hits.
All Moebius tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Juan Atkins 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Move record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
X-102,
Joe Smooth,
Barrington Levy,
Duran Duran,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
10cc,
Kayak,
Lou Reed,
Ludus,
the Human League,
Angry Samoans,
Aloha Tigers,
Flipper,
Kenny Larkin,
Sun City Girls,
Archie Shepp,
Suburban Knight,
Gang Starr,
James White and The Blacks,
Moebius,
Hashim,
Tubeway Army,
Urselle,
Country Teasers,
Essential Logic,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Todd Terry,
Whodini,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Standells,
Delta 5,
Niagra,
Public Image Ltd.,
Los Fastidios,
Yellowson,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Au Pairs,
Sällskapet,
Jerry's Kids,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Dead C,
The Victims,
The Five Americans,
Eli Mardock,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Happenings,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
a-ha,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Cecil Taylor,
48th St. Collective,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Masters at Work,
Mars,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Lee Hazlewood,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Subhumans,
Josef K,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Chris & Cosey,
Dennis Brown, Dennis Brown, Dennis Brown, Dennis Brown.
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.