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 Tonga and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Nico to the funk 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 FM Einheit. All the underground hits.
All DJ Style tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Max Romeo 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Selector Dub Narcotic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Cluster,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Judy Mowatt,
The Fire Engines,
The Divine Comedy,
Babytalk,
Suburban Knight,
Thee Headcoats,
Simply Red,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Hot Snakes,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Unrelated Segments,
Junior Murvin,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
John Lydon,
Susan Cadogan,
The Angels of Light,
the Germs,
Tom Boy,
Sex Pistols,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Ituana,
Los Fastidios,
David Axelrod,
Wolf Eyes,
the Normal,
The Techniques,
Guru Guru,
The Doobie Brothers,
Maurizio,
One Last Wish,
Lalo Schifrin,
Monolake,
The Busters,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Last Poets,
Eden Ahbez,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Eric Dolphy,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Toasters,
In Retrospect,
Liliput,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Rosa Yemen,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Idris Muhammad,
Zero Boys,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Gang of Four,
Japan,
Cymande,
The Fugs,
The Standells,
DJ Style,
Hashim,
Mandrill,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade, Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade, Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade, Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade.
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.