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 Guyana and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 Paris and Jakarta.
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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Smiths to the rap 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 Vaughan Mason & Crew. All the underground hits.
All Mars tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Zapp 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 güiro and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Mandrill record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Robert Wyatt,
Gregory Isaacs,
Slave,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Cure,
Dave Gahan,
Gang Starr,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Eric Dolphy,
Boz Scaggs,
Pylon,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Minnie Riperton,
Leonard Cohen,
Kerri Chandler,
Public Enemy,
Anthony Braxton,
Bobby Byrd,
T.S.O.L.,
Kurtis Blow,
Rapeman,
Barclay James Harvest,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Eddi Front,
Thee Headcoats,
Rufus Thomas,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Shoche,
Wally Richardson,
Gang of Four,
The Walker Brothers,
Cecil Taylor,
Quando Quango,
Country Teasers,
Camberwell Now,
Excepter,
Jawbox,
Neu!,
the Bar-Kays,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Fuzztones,
Fear,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Todd Rundgren,
World's Most,
Chris Corsano,
The Pretty Things,
Bobby Sherman,
Aswad,
Interpol,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Ice-T,
JFA,
Urselle,
Scrapy,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
X-101,
The Moody Blues,
Liliput,
The Mojo Men,
The Real Kids,
One Last Wish, One Last Wish, One Last Wish, One Last Wish.
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.