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 Lithuania and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide 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 1968 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the güiro 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 Slave to the grime kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Nico. All the underground hits.
All Anthony Braxton tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Josef K record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Reagan Youth record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ronan,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Pharoah Sanders,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Trumans Water,
FM Einheit,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Suicide,
The Tremeloes,
Funkadelic,
The Red Krayola,
Thee Headcoats,
Q and Not U,
Eric B and Rakim,
MDC,
Joe Smooth,
Niagra,
Fat Boys,
Yusef Lateef,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Warsaw,
Jandek,
Youth Brigade,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Fall,
Skarface,
kango's stein massive,
Jerry's Kids,
Jimmy McGriff,
Rosa Yemen,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Golliwogs,
Angry Samoans,
Max Romeo,
Sun City Girls,
Fluxion,
Sixth Finger,
Unwound,
E-Dancer,
The J.B.'s,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Moody Blues,
Bill Wells,
Lebanon Hanover,
The United States of America,
Audionom,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Durutti Column,
David McCallum,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Gang Gang Dance,
Kas Product,
David Axelrod,
Accadde A,
The Martian,
Brass Construction,
Boogie Down Productions,
Lucky Dragons,
The Evens,
The Toasters,
Model 500, Model 500, Model 500, Model 500.
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.