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 France and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 snare 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 Thee Headcoats to the dance 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 CMW. All the underground hits.
All Magma tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every John Lydon 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 sitar and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Peanut Butter Conspiracy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Basic Channel,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Pretty Things,
The Gap Band,
Fela Kuti,
Nick Fraelich,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Isaac Hayes,
The Pop Group,
Stockholm Monsters,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Yaz,
LL Cool J,
Marshall Jefferson,
Bauhaus,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Babytalk,
The Grass Roots,
UT,
Terry Callier,
Rekid,
Thompson Twins,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Gichy Dan,
Dawn Penn,
MDC,
X-101,
Little Man,
Trumans Water,
Joy Division,
Kevin Saunderson,
Gang Green,
Negative Approach,
Jimmy McGriff,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Sun City Girls,
Nik Kershaw,
Mad Mike,
Vainqueur,
Byron Stingily,
Minnie Riperton,
Silicon Teens,
Soft Cell,
The Angels of Light,
The Saints,
Livin' Joy,
Gang Starr,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Schoolly D,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Victims,
Tomorrow,
Spoonie Gee,
Jesper Dahlback,
Scientists,
The Martian,
Underground Resistance,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Godley & Creme,
Youth Brigade,
The Fortunes,
Rhythim Is Rhythim, Rhythim Is Rhythim, Rhythim Is Rhythim, Rhythim Is Rhythim.
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.