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 Laos and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the marimba 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 Warren Ellis to the funk 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 Terrestrial Tones. All the underground hits.
All Jacob Miller tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Soul II Soul 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Vladislav Delay record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Jesper Dahlback,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Q and Not U,
Quadrant,
The Offenders,
The Count Five,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Swans,
Minutemen,
Juan Atkins,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Tommy Roe,
Patti Smith,
Gang Starr,
Con Funk Shun,
Khruangbin,
The Seeds,
Soft Machine,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Searchers,
Negative Approach,
Bang On A Can,
Yazoo,
Johnny Clarke,
Au Pairs,
The Electric Prunes,
Absolute Body Control,
The Smiths,
Sparks,
Livin' Joy,
Oblivians,
Blake Baxter,
Delon & Dalcan,
Ronan,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Erasure,
Rod Modell,
Duran Duran,
The Modern Lovers,
Joe Smooth,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Scott Walker,
X-102,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The Selecter,
Dave Gahan,
Warren Ellis,
Guru Guru,
R.M.O.,
Maurizio,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
PIL,
Warsaw,
The Knickerbockers,
Nas,
One Last Wish,
Surgeon,
Malaria!,
The Sisters of Mercy, The Sisters of Mercy, The Sisters of Mercy, The Sisters of Mercy.
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.