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 Botswana and from Tokyo.
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 1962 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 Holger Czukay 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 Ken Boothe to the disco kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Nas. All the underground hits.
All Godley & Creme tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Major Organ And The Adding Machine 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 an arpeggiator and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Audionom record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Accadde A,
The Techniques,
Todd Terry,
The Sound,
The Young Rascals,
The Detroit Cobras,
the Human League,
Gang Starr,
Public Enemy,
Andrew Hill,
Aaron Thompson,
LL Cool J,
Judy Mowatt,
The Count Five,
The Black Dice,
Dual Sessions,
Subhumans,
Pussy Galore,
Q and Not U,
Gerry Rafferty,
Ornette Coleman,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Peter and Kerry,
Gabor Szabo,
The Flesh Eaters,
Drexciya,
Joyce Sims,
Amon Düül II,
Sandy B,
Make Up,
Bush Tetras,
Tropical Tobacco,
Flash Fearless,
kango's stein massive,
U.S. Maple,
A Certain Ratio,
Roxy Music,
Theoretical Girls,
Sonny Sharrock,
Marine Girls,
Franke,
Don Cherry,
Charles Mingus,
Urselle,
Lindisfarne,
Yaz,
Sight & Sound,
The Moleskins,
Yellowson,
Rufus Thomas,
The Toasters,
E-Dancer,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Mo-Dettes,
The New Christs,
The Dave Clark Five,
Skarface,
Alice Coltrane,
CMW,
Scott Walker,
Girls At Our Best!,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron.
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.