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 Latvia and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Camouflage to the crunk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Goldenarms. All the underground hits.
All The Star Department tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Buzzcocks record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 synthesizer and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Skriet record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Swans,
Bobby Byrd,
Scott Walker,
The Smiths,
Bluetip,
Spoonie Gee,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Remains,
The Index,
Adolescents,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
David McCallum,
This Heat,
Boogie Down Productions,
KRS-One,
Soulsonic Force,
La Düsseldorf,
One Last Wish,
Eric Dolphy,
Cameo,
B.T. Express,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
UT,
Accadde A,
Erykah Badu,
These Immortal Souls,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Sonic Youth,
Mission of Burma,
Gregory Isaacs,
Fluxion,
Neil Young,
Kas Product,
The J.B.'s,
Von Mondo,
Public Enemy,
the Fania All-Stars,
Mary Jane Girls,
Warsaw,
Toni Rubio,
Josef K,
LL Cool J,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Lou Christie,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Moss Icon,
Crispian St. Peters,
Flipper,
Delon & Dalcan,
Ken Boothe,
Amon Düül,
X-Ray Spex,
Rod Modell,
Babytalk,
Quantec,
Soft Cell,
Albert Ayler,
Mandrill,
Arthur Verocai,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra.
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.