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 Burundi and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1967 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 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 Dual Sessions to the grime 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 Nico. All the underground hits.
All Hardrive tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Angry Samoans record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Drexciya 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?
Agent Orange,
Clear Light,
Cymande,
Grauzone,
Y Pants,
Dorothy Ashby,
Severed Heads,
In Retrospect,
Gil Scott Heron,
Judy Mowatt,
CMW,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Golliwogs,
The Smiths,
Section 25,
Black Pus,
Rosa Yemen,
Minny Pops,
Alice Coltrane,
Nick Fraelich,
Jawbox,
Nils Olav,
Agitation Free,
Fear,
Popol Vuh,
Silicon Teens,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Tears for Fears,
Animal Collective,
Reagan Youth,
The Tremeloes,
Bang On A Can,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Essential Logic,
Terrestrial Tones,
Negative Approach,
The Trojans,
Groovy Waters,
Scan 7,
Letta Mbulu,
Yaz,
Aswad,
EPMD,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Desert Stars,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
a-ha,
Black Sheep,
Aaron Thompson,
The Evens,
Eric Copeland,
Arcadia,
Urselle,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Erykah Badu,
the Slits,
Throbbing Gristle,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Stereo Dub,
Liliput, Liliput, Liliput, Liliput.
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.