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 Haiti and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1969 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Pharoah Sanders to the electroclash 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 Siouxsie and the Banshees. All the underground hits.
All Moebius tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every New Age Steppers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Tropical Tobacco record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Banda Bassotti,
Joey Negro,
China Crisis,
Stetsasonic,
Fugazi,
10cc,
The Gun Club,
Bauhaus,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Vainqueur,
The Beau Brummels,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Swans,
DNA,
The Sound,
Josef K,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Wolf Eyes,
Junior Murvin,
Erykah Badu,
Inner City,
Gang Starr,
Infiniti,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Cal Tjader,
The Selecter,
Organ,
Sonic Youth,
Kaleidoscope,
Black Bananas,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Deadbeat,
Pylon,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Marvin Gaye,
Kool Moe Dee,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Quantec,
Chrome,
Howard Jones,
The Detroit Cobras,
Iggy Pop,
David McCallum,
Cheater Slicks,
Technova,
Essential Logic,
Bang On A Can,
Sun City Girls,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Grandmaster Flash,
Skaos,
John Foxx,
Crash Course in Science,
Mr. Review,
Minor Threat,
The Names,
Hashim,
Toni Rubio,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell.
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.