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 Nauru and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1961 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the marimba 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 Vainqueur to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Kas Product. All the underground hits.
All John Holt tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Zero Boys 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cal Tjader record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Cameo,
ABC,
The Selecter,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Pierre Henry,
DJ Sneak,
Faust,
Panda Bear,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Derrick May,
Funky Four + One,
Eric Copeland,
The Smoke,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Half Japanese,
Rekid,
John Lydon,
Harry Pussy,
Television Personalities,
the Association,
Harpers Bizarre,
Saccharine Trust,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Bluetip,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Cramps,
Sun Ra,
Lungfish,
Lyres,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Boogie Down Productions,
Lindisfarne,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Searchers,
Letta Mbulu,
The Fortunes,
B.T. Express,
Sun City Girls,
Eric B and Rakim,
Parry Music,
The Techniques,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Intrusion,
Gong,
The Moody Blues,
Chris Corsano,
Model 500,
June Days,
Lou Reed,
Soft Machine,
DJ Style,
Rapeman,
Iggy Pop,
Blossom Toes,
Robert Görl,
Oblivians,
The Star Department,
Popol Vuh,
The Dead C,
Aaron Thompson,
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.