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 Lebanon and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1965 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the 808 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 Gregory Isaacs to the electroclash 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 Bad Manners. All the underground hits.
All Heavy D & The Boyz tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Delon & Dalcan record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 synthesizer and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jesper Dahlback record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Fatback Band,
Moss Icon,
Alton Ellis,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Delon & Dalcan,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Tim Buckley,
Rites of Spring,
Swans,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Dorothy Ashby,
Scrapy,
Public Image Ltd.,
World's Most,
Babytalk,
The Searchers,
Sandy B,
The Dead C,
Pulsallama,
Al Stewart,
the Slits,
The Leaves,
Ken Boothe,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Colin Newman,
James White and The Blacks,
Juan Atkins,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Angry Samoans,
Fad Gadget,
The Five Americans,
Eric B and Rakim,
MC5,
The Misunderstood,
Gang of Four,
The Angels of Light,
The Trojans,
Ice-T,
The Residents,
Boz Scaggs,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Moebius,
Donald Byrd,
Ten City,
Parry Music,
The Motions,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Qualms,
Bronski Beat,
Livin' Joy,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Ultimate Spinach,
Thompson Twins,
John Holt,
Smog,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Warren Ellis,
The Techniques,
Robert Görl,
Jacob Miller,
Rod Modell,
Ultra Naté,
AZ, AZ, AZ, AZ.
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.