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 Guinea and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1960 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the sitar 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 Sound Behaviour to the rap 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 Theoretical Girls. All the underground hits.
All The Shadows of Knight tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The J.B.'s record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 marimba and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a David Axelrod 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?
Radiopuhelimet,
Ituana,
Brass Construction,
Tomorrow,
Pere Ubu,
Yellowson,
X-Ray Spex,
The Barracudas,
Lebanon Hanover,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Jawbox,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Gil Scott Heron,
Circle Jerks,
Max Romeo,
Lindisfarne,
Angry Samoans,
Robert Hood,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Fuzztones,
Bronski Beat,
Bluetip,
Marvin Gaye,
Heaven 17,
Sister Nancy,
Lakeside,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
F. McDonald,
Gang of Four,
Rod Modell,
Lucky Dragons,
Robert Wyatt,
Sixth Finger,
Aural Exciters,
Terry Callier,
Shuggie Otis,
Trumans Water,
Audionom,
Laurel Aitken,
Michelle Simonal,
Cecil Taylor,
Nick Fraelich,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Motions,
AZ,
Clear Light,
Section 25,
The Moody Blues,
Kaleidoscope,
Magma,
Gerry Rafferty,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Panda Bear,
Guru Guru,
Anthony Braxton,
Josef K,
The Five Americans,
Tropical Tobacco,
10cc,
cv313,
Organ,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.