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 Kiribati and from Mexico City.
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 1963 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 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 Livin' Joy to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Rahsaan Roland Kirk. All the underground hits.
All Rotary Connection tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 a 808 and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Soul Sonic Force record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pussy Galore,
Todd Terry,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Japan,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Crime,
JFA,
the Bar-Kays,
Harry Pussy,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Nick Fraelich,
Kenny Larkin,
Pylon,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Prince Buster,
Leonard Cohen,
Adolescents,
Rekid,
The Victims,
Reuben Wilson,
Deepchord,
Judy Mowatt,
Cheater Slicks,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Duran Duran,
Cal Tjader,
Au Pairs,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
the Soft Cell,
The Mummies,
Simply Red,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Eli Mardock,
Scratch Acid,
Amon Düül II,
Brand Nubian,
Erasure,
Radiopuhelimet,
Heaven 17,
Rufus Thomas,
Johnny Clarke,
Crooked Eye,
The Smiths,
Ultravox,
Banda Bassotti,
Faraquet,
Eric Copeland,
Quadrant,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Newcleus,
The Moody Blues,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
the Fania All-Stars,
Joe Finger,
Con Funk Shun, Con Funk Shun, Con Funk Shun, Con Funk Shun.
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.