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 Iceland and from Stockholm.
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 1964 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 organ 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 Main Source to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Country Joe & The Fish. All the underground hits.
All New Order tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dennis Brown 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Negative Approach,
cv313,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Connie Case,
Nils Olav,
Saccharine Trust,
Boz Scaggs,
The Cure,
kango's stein massive,
Archie Shepp,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Fela Kuti,
Bill Wells,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Techniques,
48th St. Collective,
Morten Harket,
Harry Pussy,
Intrusion,
Main Source,
Ash Ra Tempel,
FM Einheit,
Joyce Sims,
Cheater Slicks,
R.M.O.,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Banda Bassotti,
Sun City Girls,
CMW,
Scan 7,
Buzzcocks,
Adolescents,
Joe Smooth,
World's Most,
Kool Moe Dee,
Cluster,
LL Cool J,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Angry Samoans,
Supertramp,
Swell Maps,
Harmonia,
Silicon Teens,
Stetsasonic,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Harpers Bizarre,
Tears for Fears,
The Fuzztones,
Franke,
Eyeless In Gaza,
U.S. Maple,
Das Ding,
JFA,
Peter and Kerry,
Monks,
Visage,
T.S.O.L.,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
John Coltrane,
Von Mondo,
Simply Red,
Icehouse,
Kenny Larkin,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks, Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks, Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks, Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks.
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.