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 St Lucia and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 The Litter to the disco 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 La Düsseldorf. All the underground hits.
All Stereo Dub tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Davy DMX record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Donald Byrd,
Ice-T,
The Associates,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Funky Four + One,
Cymande,
The Zeros,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Pop Group,
Fear,
the Swans,
Dave Gahan,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Cramps,
The Smoke,
Young Marble Giants,
Heaven 17,
Neil Young,
Dennis Brown,
Funkadelic,
Outsiders,
Y Pants,
Peter & Gordon,
Archie Shepp,
Barrington Levy,
The Gap Band,
June of 44,
Organ,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Beau Brummels,
Make Up,
The Raincoats,
The Durutti Column,
Scan 7,
Aural Exciters,
Rosa Yemen,
Skarface,
Moss Icon,
David Axelrod,
LL Cool J,
Clear Light,
Scientists,
Main Source,
Marshall Jefferson,
Scott Walker,
Japan,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Fatback Band,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Fortunes,
Lindisfarne,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Fall,
The Blues Magoos,
Bill Near,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Sam Rivers,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Bang On A Can,
Aaron Thompson, Aaron Thompson, Aaron Thompson, Aaron Thompson.
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.