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 Tuvalu and from Philadelphia.
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 1963 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Prince Buster to the grime kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Alphaville. All the underground hits.
All Soul II Soul tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Leonard Cohen record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Oneida record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare 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?
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Kerrie Biddell,
Faust,
Reagan Youth,
Cameo,
Deakin,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Marcia Griffiths,
Duran Duran,
Supertramp,
Khruangbin,
Janne Schatter,
Marine Girls,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Fortunes,
Bronski Beat,
Althea and Donna,
Los Fastidios,
Laurel Aitken,
The Slits,
Lalo Schifrin,
The J.B.'s,
Hardrive,
The Leaves,
The Trojans,
Soulsonic Force,
Cal Tjader,
Altered Images,
The Standells,
Arcadia,
Q and Not U,
48th St. Collective,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
the Bar-Kays,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Rapeman,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
A Certain Ratio,
Prince Buster,
Qualms,
Section 25,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Boredoms,
Piero Umiliani,
Au Pairs,
The Mighty Diamonds,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Procol Harum,
The United States of America,
Scrapy,
Pet Shop Boys,
Trumans Water,
Harpers Bizarre,
Patti Smith,
Kool Moe Dee,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Blancmange,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Slackers,
Country Teasers,
Sonic Youth,
Kaleidoscope,
Ohio Players, Ohio Players, Ohio Players, Ohio Players.
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.