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 Sudan and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1960 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 Captain Beefheart 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 Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft to the disco kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 The Flesh Eaters. All the underground hits.
All Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Dave Clark Five 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sonny Sharrock record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eurythmics,
Sällskapet,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Graham Central Station,
Boredoms,
Eden Ahbez,
Arthur Verocai,
Brass Construction,
R.M.O.,
Goldenarms,
The Gap Band,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Carl Craig,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Faust,
John Holt,
Mantronix,
Hashim,
The Black Dice,
MDC,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
A Certain Ratio,
Lindisfarne,
Jeff Mills,
Lee Hazlewood,
Donald Byrd,
Eric Dolphy,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Charles Mingus,
Wire,
X-Ray Spex,
Lungfish,
Rotary Connection,
Nico,
The Index,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Tubeway Army,
Peter & Gordon,
Soul Sonic Force,
Barbara Tucker,
Avey Tare,
Freddie Wadling,
Metal Thangz,
Parry Music,
OOIOO,
The Barracudas,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Aural Exciters,
Drexciya,
Fear,
Saccharine Trust,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Sixth Finger,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Jimmy McGriff,
Swans,
Deakin,
Second Layer,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.