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 Japan and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1966 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Seoul.
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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Fugazi to the techno 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 Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu. All the underground hits.
All Rakim tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Moss Icon 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rosa Yemen record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Josef K,
The Gap Band,
Average White Band,
the Fania All-Stars,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Jeff Lynne,
Unwound,
Excepter,
Babytalk,
Fatback Band,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Slits,
Big Daddy Kane,
Au Pairs,
Vainqueur,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
K-Klass,
The Golliwogs,
The Wake,
Zapp,
KRS-One,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Morten Harket,
AZ,
Agitation Free,
Adolescents,
Crispy Ambulance,
Eddi Front,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Stockholm Monsters,
Spandau Ballet,
Grandmaster Flash,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
David Axelrod,
10cc,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Soft Machine,
Davy DMX,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Todd Terry,
Soft Cell,
Girls At Our Best!,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Misunderstood,
Khruangbin,
Nils Olav,
Gang of Four,
Lucky Dragons,
Pylon,
Royal Trux,
cv313,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Count Five,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Red Krayola,
Lalann,
Gichy Dan,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Gang Starr,
The Invisible, The Invisible, The Invisible, The Invisible.
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.