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 Nepal and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Kas Product to the grime kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Michelle Simonal. All the underground hits.
All The Jesus and Mary Chain tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Motions 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 linndrum and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Masters at Work record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Golliwogs,
The Busters,
The Zeros,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Mo-Dettes,
DJ Style,
The Barracudas,
The Fugs,
Main Source,
The Doobie Brothers,
Juan Atkins,
R.M.O.,
Eden Ahbez,
The Velvet Underground,
Lou Reed,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Five Americans,
Inner City,
the Fania All-Stars,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
kango's stein massive,
Glenn Branca,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Joensuu 1685,
Glambeats Corp.,
Marmalade,
The Pop Group,
Maleditus Sound,
Nick Fraelich,
Young Marble Giants,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Mission of Burma,
Absolute Body Control,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Alton Ellis,
Ultimate Spinach,
Royal Trux,
The Birthday Party,
Scrapy,
the Sonics,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Pole,
Tom Boy,
Deakin,
Andrew Hill,
Ronan,
Audionom,
The Slackers,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Seeds,
the Swans,
Symarip,
Ituana,
Wally Richardson,
Nas,
Yazoo,
Junior Murvin,
Bill Wells,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel.
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.