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 Maldives and from Mumbai.
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 1961 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 güiro 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 Gil Scott Heron to the rock 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 Schoolly D. All the underground hits.
All Black Flag tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every John Cale record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Public Image Ltd. record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Q and Not U,
Janne Schatter,
Blossom Toes,
The Pretty Things,
The Electric Prunes,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Newcleus,
The Wake,
Harpers Bizarre,
Gang Starr,
Rites of Spring,
DJ Style,
Dorothy Ashby,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Tim Buckley,
Tubeway Army,
Sam Rivers,
Panda Bear,
Amon Düül II,
Matthew Bourne,
Idris Muhammad,
The Motions,
Rosa Yemen,
KRS-One,
Mission of Burma,
The Monks,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Johnny Osbourne,
Robert Görl,
Aloha Tigers,
The Sisters of Mercy,
The Toasters,
The Durutti Column,
Archie Shepp,
Dawn Penn,
Nas,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Young Marble Giants,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Minutemen,
Ralphi Rosario,
the Sonics,
The Velvet Underground,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Roxette,
Jeru the Damaja,
Second Layer,
The Offenders,
Suicide,
Symarip,
Pagans,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Charles Mingus,
The Happenings,
Bobby Sherman,
Byron Stingily,
Eve St. Jones,
Rapeman,
Stiv Bators,
The American Breed,
Accadde A, Accadde A, Accadde A, Accadde A.
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.