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 Colombia and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1961 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Chrome to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Marvin Gaye. All the underground hits.
All the Sonics tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every James White and The Blacks 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a CMW record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Laurel Aitken,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Lakeside,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Lower 48,
Model 500,
Aswad,
The Young Rascals,
Groovy Waters,
Wings,
Little Man,
Dennis Brown,
Sun City Girls,
Pylon,
Jacob Miller,
Darondo,
Carl Craig,
Japan,
JFA,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Intrusion,
In Retrospect,
The Evens,
Curtis Mayfield,
Jesper Dahlback,
Pierre Henry,
Grey Daturas,
Saccharine Trust,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Siglo XX,
Radiohead,
Marc Almond,
Basic Channel,
Ralphi Rosario,
Bush Tetras,
Sarah Menescal,
The Wake,
PIL,
Robert Hood,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Piero Umiliani,
Sparks,
Sound Behaviour,
Urselle,
the Fania All-Stars,
Yusef Lateef,
The Cure,
Funky Four + One,
Roxy Music,
Minor Threat,
The Sound,
Cluster,
Yellowson,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Beau Brummels,
China Crisis,
Amon Düül II,
Sugar Minott,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Sonny Sharrock,
Sandy B, Sandy B, Sandy B, Sandy B.
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.