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 Philippines and from Portland.
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 1967 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Davy DMX to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Stereo Dub. All the underground hits.
All The Smoke tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dennis Brown record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 rhodes and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Yaz record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Mojo Men,
Sandy B,
Sonny Sharrock,
Joey Negro,
Graham Central Station,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Lyres,
Todd Rundgren,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Michelle Simonal,
Ohio Players,
Bill Wells,
Fad Gadget,
Gang Green,
Laurel Aitken,
Porter Ricks,
Warren Ellis,
Loose Ends,
The Litter,
Roger Hodgson,
Supertramp,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Lou Reed,
Parry Music,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Gichy Dan,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Tres Demented,
Silicon Teens,
DJ Sneak,
The Happenings,
Junior Murvin,
Marine Girls,
Interpol,
The Beau Brummels,
T.S.O.L.,
The Shadows of Knight,
Fear,
David McCallum,
Agent Orange,
Matthew Halsall,
Yaz,
Sparks,
Outsiders,
Grandmaster Flash,
F. McDonald,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Fall,
Minor Threat,
Technova,
Roy Ayers,
The Cramps,
La Düsseldorf,
Kayak,
Crash Course in Science,
8 Eyed Spy,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.