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 Zimbabwe and from Johannesburg.
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 1962 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Radiopuhelimet to the grime 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 Gang Starr. All the underground hits.
All Aswad tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Manfred Mann's Earth Band 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Buckinghams record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
John Cale,
Talk Talk,
Bobby Womack,
Eric B and Rakim,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Warren Ellis,
The Walker Brothers,
Yazoo,
Lightning Bolt,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Guru Guru,
Joensuu 1685,
the Association,
The New Christs,
Sparks,
Quantec,
Fort Wilson Riot,
The Sound,
Todd Terry,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Slackers,
The Martian,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Marmalade,
Eric Dolphy,
The Golliwogs,
Rotary Connection,
Aaron Thompson,
Mary Jane Girls,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Spandau Ballet,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Siglo XX,
This Heat,
Hot Snakes,
Moby Grape,
Gang Green,
Moss Icon,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Oneida,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Divine Comedy,
Roger Hodgson,
Kerri Chandler,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Outsiders,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Black Sheep,
Oblivians,
Joy Division,
The Gories,
Underground Resistance,
Jesper Dahlback,
Dennis Brown,
Minny Pops,
Half Japanese,
The Neon Judgement,
Delon & Dalcan,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Visage,
Gang Starr,
Soulsonic Force,
The Tremeloes,
X-101, X-101, X-101, X-101.
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.