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 Lesotho and from Tehran.
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 1962 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Traffic Nightmare to the punk 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 Flash Fearless. All the underground hits.
All Swans tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Stereo Dub record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Marshall Jefferson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a spring reverb.
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,
Roger Hodgson,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Basic Channel,
Morten Harket,
Panda Bear,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Move,
Delta 5,
Blake Baxter,
Public Enemy,
Junior Murvin,
Popol Vuh,
Scrapy,
Rosa Yemen,
Outsiders,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Barry Ungar,
Soulsonic Force,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Flash Fearless,
The Kinks,
JFA,
Icehouse,
World's Most,
CMW,
Hasil Adkins,
X-101,
B.T. Express,
The Detroit Cobras,
Aaron Thompson,
John Foxx,
Colin Newman,
Talk Talk,
Zero Boys,
Qualms,
Mo-Dettes,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Kas Product,
Skriet,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Los Fastidios,
Barrington Levy,
Mission of Burma,
Marcia Griffiths,
Yazoo,
Young Marble Giants,
Rapeman,
John Coltrane,
Youth Brigade,
Bill Wells,
New Age Steppers,
The Litter,
Desert Stars,
Faust,
Bang On A Can,
the Bar-Kays,
Matthew Halsall,
The Dead C,
Smog,
Vainqueur,
Gastr Del Sol,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam.
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.