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 Yemen and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 Tehran and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Aswad to the disco 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 Aloha Tigers. All the underground hits.
All One Last Wish tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ossler record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Reagan Youth 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?
It's A Beautiful Day,
Easy Going,
Man Parrish,
Moebius,
Eddi Front,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Flamin' Groovies,
Das Ding,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Yellowson,
Ronan,
Kerrie Biddell,
Aloha Tigers,
Intrusion,
Chris Corsano,
Barclay James Harvest,
Bill Near,
Throbbing Gristle,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Arcadia,
Ornette Coleman,
Donny Hathaway,
Crooked Eye,
Urselle,
The Dave Clark Five,
R.M.O.,
LL Cool J,
Grandmaster Flash,
Scratch Acid,
Rakim,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
A Certain Ratio,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Nirvana,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Andrew Hill,
Gastr Del Sol,
Moss Icon,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Happenings,
Fort Wilson Riot,
MC5,
Robert Wyatt,
Camberwell Now,
The Slackers,
Oneida,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Cymande,
Section 25,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Brick,
Sonic Youth,
Khruangbin,
The Young Rascals,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Soul Sonic Force,
June of 44,
Black Moon,
Second Layer, Second Layer, Second Layer, Second Layer.
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.