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 Dominican Republic and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1960 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Surgeon to the rap 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 Tommy Roe. All the underground hits.
All Ludus tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nils Olav record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 an oboe and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Crispy Ambulance record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Essential Logic,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Trojans,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Monks,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Depeche Mode,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Junior Murvin,
Second Layer,
Flash Fearless,
Flamin' Groovies,
Bobby Womack,
Dennis Brown,
Groovy Waters,
Marc Almond,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Rufus Thomas,
Funkadelic,
The Raincoats,
Minnie Riperton,
AZ,
Can,
Slick Rick,
Soul Sonic Force,
Crash Course in Science,
The Barracudas,
Dual Sessions,
Donny Hathaway,
Pere Ubu,
Theoretical Girls,
Inner City,
Shuggie Otis,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Youth Brigade,
Jeff Lynne,
The Doors,
Ponytail,
The Knickerbockers,
Section 25,
The Sound,
The Cramps,
Boredoms,
X-101,
The Electric Prunes,
K-Klass,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Angels of Light,
Hardrive,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Beau Brummels,
Trumans Water,
Danielle Patucci,
Cameo,
Babytalk,
Brothers Johnson,
Neu!,
Zero Boys,
Lalann, Lalann, Lalann, Lalann.
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.