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 Cape Verde and from Lyon.
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 1967 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Lyon.
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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 Bill Near to the dance 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 R.M.O.. All the underground hits.
All The Index tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Brothers Johnson 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Funkadelic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jawbox,
Derrick Morgan,
Metal Thangz,
The Evens,
Hot Snakes,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
June Days,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Grauzone,
Scrapy,
Brick,
Sällskapet,
Sonic Youth,
Eric Copeland,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Shadows of Knight,
Gong,
Freddie Wadling,
Lou Christie,
the Fania All-Stars,
The Barracudas,
Dual Sessions,
Avey Tare,
The American Breed,
Wings,
Nirvana,
Joyce Sims,
Nick Fraelich,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Radiopuhelimet,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Suburban Knight,
Lindisfarne,
Black Moon,
The Mummies,
The Motions,
Letta Mbulu,
The Saints,
Carl Craig,
Ronan,
Inner City,
The Last Poets,
Drive Like Jehu,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Associates,
The Gun Club,
Moss Icon,
Amazonics,
Flash Fearless,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Iggy Pop,
Rosa Yemen,
The Selecter,
The Walker Brothers,
Throbbing Gristle,
Shoche,
Laurel Aitken,
Darondo,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Agent Orange, Agent Orange, Agent Orange, Agent Orange.
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.