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 Portugal and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1966 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 DeepChord presents Echospace 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 Idris Muhammad. All the underground hits.
All Bang on a Can All-Stars tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every ABC record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 rhodes and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kerrie Biddell record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Organ,
Jawbox,
Cluster,
Nation of Ulysses,
Jesper Dahlback,
Ludus,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Sandy B,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Country Teasers,
Model 500,
Graham Central Station,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Amazonics,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Lee Hazlewood,
Ten City,
Robert Hood,
Fad Gadget,
The Smoke,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Delta 5,
Scott Walker,
Davy DMX,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Althea and Donna,
Lucky Dragons,
Brand Nubian,
Godley & Creme,
CMW,
The Buckinghams,
Aloha Tigers,
Deadbeat,
Motorama,
Nick Fraelich,
Gang Green,
Aswad,
Make Up,
Drexciya,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Crispy Ambulance,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Peter and Kerry,
Big Daddy Kane,
Theoretical Girls,
David Bowie,
Max Romeo,
The Human League,
The Gladiators,
Ultravox,
Soul II Soul,
Rosa Yemen,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Camberwell Now,
Stereo Dub,
Idris Muhammad,
The Pretty Things,
Slick Rick,
Donny Hathaway,
Shoche,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Marine Girls,
Sonic Youth,
Skarface, Skarface, Skarface, Skarface.
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.