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 Congo and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1963 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Crime to the rap 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 The Monks. All the underground hits.
All DJ Sneak tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gang Starr 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Soft Machine record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Minor Threat,
Robert Hood,
The Slits,
Faraquet,
Agent Orange,
Alice Coltrane,
Suburban Knight,
KRS-One,
Infiniti,
Davy DMX,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Arab on Radar,
Minny Pops,
The Moleskins,
Saccharine Trust,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Count Five,
Bronski Beat,
Mary Jane Girls,
Delon & Dalcan,
Todd Terry,
Theoretical Girls,
Sexual Harrassment,
Banda Bassotti,
The Fortunes,
The Alarm Clocks,
Youth Brigade,
Vladislav Delay,
The Standells,
Matthew Bourne,
Ralphi Rosario,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Chris & Cosey,
The Young Rascals,
Aloha Tigers,
The Monks,
Faust,
B.T. Express,
Dawn Penn,
Gang Starr,
Gregory Isaacs,
Maurizio,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Dead Boys,
Patti Smith,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Monochrome Set,
X-Ray Spex,
Bizarre Inc.,
John Coltrane,
John Cale,
Rekid,
Robert Wyatt,
10cc,
Skriet,
Cymande,
Derrick Morgan,
Susan Cadogan,
Audionom,
Dave Gahan,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Can,
These Immortal Souls, These Immortal Souls, These Immortal Souls, These Immortal Souls.
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.