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 Slovakia and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1969 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 organ 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 Carl Craig to the rap kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Fad Gadget. All the underground hits.
All Ultimate Spinach tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 harpsichord 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 808 and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Magazine,
Amazonics,
The Grass Roots,
Country Teasers,
Charles Mingus,
Mars,
Chrome,
Pet Shop Boys,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Cymande,
Pagans,
John Lydon,
Kerri Chandler,
Bill Near,
Pussy Galore,
Sam Rivers,
The Cramps,
The Sisters of Mercy,
The Martian,
The Busters,
Faust,
Massinfluence,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Make Up,
The Happenings,
Scion,
Popol Vuh,
Johnny Osbourne,
Pere Ubu,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Mummies,
Darondo,
Todd Rundgren,
Qualms,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Moleskins,
Magma,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Adolescents,
Barrington Levy,
Joensuu 1685,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Chris & Cosey,
June Days,
Franke,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The Remains,
Bill Wells,
Erykah Badu,
Kerrie Biddell,
Quadrant,
Terrestrial Tones,
Stiv Bators,
The Count Five,
Bootsy Collins,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Beau Brummels,
Fear,
Bush Tetras,
Animal Collective,
Kayak,
Soul Sonic Force, Soul Sonic Force, Soul Sonic Force, Soul Sonic Force.
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.