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 Trinidad & Tobago and from Accra.
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 1963 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 guitar 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 Smog to the crunk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Sparks. All the underground hits.
All Arcadia tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Stereo Dub 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Clear Light record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
U.S. Maple,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Sister Nancy,
Buzzcocks,
Carl Craig,
Reagan Youth,
Leonard Cohen,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Cramps,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Bronski Beat,
Shoche,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Minnie Riperton,
Isaac Hayes,
The Blackbyrds,
Scratch Acid,
Sparks,
Little Man,
Johnny Osbourne,
Zapp,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
John Holt,
Sonic Youth,
The Detroit Cobras,
Howard Jones,
a-ha,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Kas Product,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
One Last Wish,
The Neon Judgement,
E-Dancer,
Porter Ricks,
The Doors,
Essential Logic,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
The Buckinghams,
B.T. Express,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Joyce Sims,
The Fall,
Sandy B,
Brass Construction,
EPMD,
The Fuzztones,
Agitation Free,
The Smiths,
Sixth Finger,
Bill Near,
The Monochrome Set,
Lindisfarne,
AZ,
Spandau Ballet,
Glenn Branca,
Altered Images,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Piero Umiliani,
H. Thieme,
Roxy Music,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell.
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.