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 Croatia and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1964 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Delhi.
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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Blossom Toes to the punk 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 Jawbox. All the underground hits.
All Technova tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cecil Taylor record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Public Enemy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Fuzztones,
Toni Rubio,
The Gories,
Cheater Slicks,
Suicide,
Joensuu 1685,
Negative Approach,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Alarm Clocks,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The Fugs,
Terrestrial Tones,
Lalann,
Arab on Radar,
Pantytec,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Connie Case,
LL Cool J,
The Stooges,
Black Pus,
Marcia Griffiths,
Jawbox,
The Gun Club,
Josef K,
Section 25,
Blancmange,
Mandrill,
Terry Callier,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Lebanon Hanover,
Fear,
Gregory Isaacs,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Model 500,
The Sound,
Audionom,
Grauzone,
Black Bananas,
X-101,
Mars,
Vainqueur,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Scratch Acid,
Panda Bear,
Tomorrow,
Flipper,
Metal Thangz,
The Saints,
Pet Shop Boys,
Tropical Tobacco,
Circle Jerks,
Nik Kershaw,
Kaleidoscope,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Anakelly,
Swans,
The Selecter,
La Düsseldorf,
Matthew Halsall,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids, Richard Hell and the Voidoids, Richard Hell and the Voidoids, Richard Hell and the Voidoids.
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.