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 Tunisia and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1960 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 1976 at the first Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Warren Ellis to the techno kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Bizarre Inc.. All the underground hits.
All Johnny Clarke tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jesper Dahlback record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 an oboe and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Quadrant record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Boz Scaggs,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Maurizio,
Bush Tetras,
Parry Music,
Bad Manners,
Faraquet,
Darondo,
Rakim,
Prince Buster,
The Dave Clark Five,
Matthew Halsall,
Neil Young,
Bobby Sherman,
Robert Görl,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Skriet,
The Monks,
David Axelrod,
The Human League,
Fatback Band,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Sugar Minott,
Gang Green,
World's Most,
June of 44,
Maleditus Sound,
Anthony Braxton,
Joey Negro,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Grauzone,
Boredoms,
The Saints,
Gang Starr,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Lucky Dragons,
Yusef Lateef,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Sonic Youth,
E-Dancer,
Michelle Simonal,
Leonard Cohen,
Glenn Branca,
ABBA,
The Pop Group,
The Moleskins,
The Fugs,
Blossom Toes,
Harpers Bizarre,
Jerry's Kids,
Jeff Mills,
Eli Mardock,
Echospace,
These Immortal Souls,
Porter Ricks,
MDC,
Intrusion,
Deakin,
Max Romeo, Max Romeo, Max Romeo, Max Romeo.
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.