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 Guyana and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South 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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the snare 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 Lalann to the punk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 FM Einheit. All the underground hits.
All Grey Daturas tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dual Sessions record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 a linndrum and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Mojo Men record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb 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?
Trumans Water,
Royal Trux,
Outsiders,
Soulsonic Force,
The Wake,
DJ Style,
Los Fastidios,
Crooked Eye,
Nico,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Essential Logic,
Pulsallama,
Spandau Ballet,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Blancmange,
Siglo XX,
Massinfluence,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
T.S.O.L.,
Fat Boys,
Cal Tjader,
Chris & Cosey,
Model 500,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Main Source,
Cameo,
Drexciya,
Black Sheep,
Grandmaster Flash,
Pagans,
Fugazi,
Tres Demented,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Happenings,
Archie Shepp,
the Association,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Joe Finger,
Quadrant,
A Certain Ratio,
Dorothy Ashby,
Jawbox,
Lindisfarne,
Throbbing Gristle,
Warren Ellis,
Frankie Knuckles,
Dawn Penn,
The Names,
Tommy Roe,
Amon Düül II,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Man Parrish,
Funkadelic,
Pantytec,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Vladislav Delay,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
10cc,
K-Klass,
Can,
Black Pus,
Terrestrial Tones,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam.
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.