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 Iran and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez 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 1965 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
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 The Fuzztones to the jazz 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 Camberwell Now. All the underground hits.
All Lalann tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lou Reed & Metallica record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ultramagnetic MC's record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Minutemen,
Radiohead,
Bronski Beat,
ABC,
Pantytec,
Delta 5,
Panda Bear,
The Five Americans,
U.S. Maple,
New Age Steppers,
Bad Manners,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Drexciya,
Eric Copeland,
Moss Icon,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Misunderstood,
Inner City,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Fad Gadget,
Eden Ahbez,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Walker Brothers,
Roy Ayers,
UT,
Ice-T,
Mandrill,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Newcleus,
The Sonics,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Swell Maps,
Eli Mardock,
The Blues Magoos,
Subhumans,
Grauzone,
Guru Guru,
Massinfluence,
Dennis Brown,
Liliput,
Hardrive,
The Kinks,
The Invisible,
Groovy Waters,
FM Einheit,
Isaac Hayes,
Byron Stingily,
The Saints,
The Litter,
Letta Mbulu,
Heaven 17,
Oneida,
Sonic Youth,
Crash Course in Science,
Black Pus,
New Order,
the Sonics,
Donny Hathaway,
Rapeman,
Lower 48,
Talk Talk,
Gang Green,
DJ Sneak, DJ Sneak, DJ Sneak, DJ Sneak.
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.