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 Germany and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1968 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Popol Vuh to the jazz 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 Ultimate Spinach. All the underground hits.
All Big Daddy Kane tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lou Reed & John Cale record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sugar Minott record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Wally Richardson,
The Cure,
Gong,
Gang Starr,
Letta Mbulu,
Spoonie Gee,
The Smoke,
The Raincoats,
The Barracudas,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Cecil Taylor,
The Invisible,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Arcadia,
the Swans,
MDC,
MC5,
Skarface,
Soul II Soul,
Skaos,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Mummies,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Gap Band,
Ultravox,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Brass Construction,
Faraquet,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Easy Going,
Roxette,
DJ Sneak,
Subhumans,
Junior Murvin,
Fad Gadget,
Rapeman,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Alphaville,
The Offenders,
JFA,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
John Coltrane,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Public Enemy,
Yaz,
The Motions,
Livin' Joy,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Star Department,
Bad Manners,
Q65,
Harpers Bizarre,
Tommy Roe,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Country Joe & The Fish,
K-Klass,
Roger Hodgson,
Eve St. Jones,
Howard Jones,
Nik Kershaw,
Joy Division,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Whodini, Whodini, Whodini, Whodini.
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.