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 South Sudan and from Hong Kong.
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 1967 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth to the techno 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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic. All the underground hits.
All Johnny Clarke tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every T.S.O.L. 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joensuu 1685 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Doors,
cv313,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Offenders,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Soul II Soul,
a-ha,
The Sound,
The Dave Clark Five,
Mars,
Ultra Naté,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Motions,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
June of 44,
X-101,
CMW,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Searchers,
Man Eating Sloth,
Altered Images,
Minor Threat,
The Birthday Party,
Soulsonic Force,
Boogie Down Productions,
Joe Finger,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Derrick May,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Fire Engines,
The Golliwogs,
Todd Rundgren,
Siglo XX,
Swell Maps,
The Move,
The Happenings,
The Leaves,
Ultravox,
Echospace,
The Blackbyrds,
The Cramps,
Jawbox,
48th St. Collective,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Tim Buckley,
The Pretty Things,
Crime,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Cal Tjader,
Nas,
Anakelly,
Gil Scott Heron,
KRS-One,
Roy Ayers,
Lucky Dragons,
The Vogues,
Flash Fearless,
The Saints,
Country Joe & The Fish, Country Joe & The Fish, Country Joe & The Fish, Country Joe & The Fish.
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.