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 Mauritania and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 H. Thieme to the grime kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Wire. All the underground hits.
All Gichy Dan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sonic Youth record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Isaac Hayes 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?
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Zeros,
Sugar Minott,
Robert Görl,
Archie Shepp,
Cheater Slicks,
New Age Steppers,
Glenn Branca,
Wolf Eyes,
Cluster,
Graham Central Station,
The Knickerbockers,
Funky Four + One,
Gichy Dan,
Barbara Tucker,
Prince Buster,
Joe Smooth,
Peter and Kerry,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Arthur Verocai,
Model 500,
Black Moon,
DNA,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Q and Not U,
World's Most,
8 Eyed Spy,
Neil Young,
Soulsonic Force,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Schoolly D,
Cymande,
Lower 48,
The Pop Group,
The Gories,
Lindisfarne,
MDC,
This Heat,
The Monks,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Nirvana,
Sonic Youth,
Fatback Band,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Kenny Larkin,
The Doors,
Bizarre Inc.,
Pantaleimon,
Pole,
OOIOO,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Dual Sessions,
The Evens,
Jeru the Damaja,
Country Joe & The Fish,
London Community Gospel Choir, London Community Gospel Choir, London Community Gospel Choir, London Community Gospel Choir.
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.