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 Eritrea and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South 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 1968 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Rakim to the dance 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 Todd Rundgren. All the underground hits.
All Grauzone tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Archie Shepp record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 marimba and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Skarface,
LL Cool J,
Anthony Braxton,
Chris & Cosey,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Alphaville,
Donny Hathaway,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Monks,
The Monks,
Faraquet,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Sällskapet,
Camouflage,
The Invisible,
David McCallum,
Scott Walker,
Minor Threat,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Basic Channel,
Intrusion,
Nick Fraelich,
Jandek,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Aswad,
Mandrill,
Anakelly,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Slackers,
Hardrive,
Technova,
Simply Red,
Soulsonic Force,
Derrick Morgan,
Sonny Sharrock,
Youth Brigade,
Royal Trux,
The Zeros,
Chrome,
Ponytail,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Au Pairs,
Roger Hodgson,
Flash Fearless,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The Cramps,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Rotary Connection,
the Germs,
Idris Muhammad,
Dead Boys,
Rekid,
Visage,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Arab on Radar,
CMW,
The Alarm Clocks,
Radiopuhelimet,
Niagra,
Public Enemy, Public Enemy, Public Enemy, Public Enemy.
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.