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 Uganda and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Scan 7 to the crunk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 PIL. All the underground hits.
All The Gun Club tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Organ record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 snare and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a MDC record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Smiths,
Lower 48,
New Order,
Con Funk Shun,
Suburban Knight,
The Victims,
Stetsasonic,
Drexciya,
John Coltrane,
Juan Atkins,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Model 500,
MC5,
Eurythmics,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Flipper,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Stereo Dub,
Bobby Womack,
Animal Collective,
a-ha,
Colin Newman,
Radiohead,
Lee Hazlewood,
Q65,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Man Parrish,
Jawbox,
Barclay James Harvest,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Dead C,
The Litter,
Rotary Connection,
Frankie Knuckles,
The Five Americans,
Tomorrow,
Faraquet,
Boogie Down Productions,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
DNA,
Minutemen,
The Pop Group,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Albert Ayler,
The Cowsills,
Minny Pops,
Black Flag,
Pierre Henry,
Crispy Ambulance,
The Index,
Brand Nubian,
The Moody Blues,
Todd Terry,
James White and The Blacks,
Talk Talk, Talk Talk, Talk Talk, Talk Talk.
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.