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 London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 snare 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 Duran Duran to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Fifty Foot Hose. All the underground hits.
All Terror Squad Feat. Camron tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cheater Slicks record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cybotron record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Soul II Soul,
Essential Logic,
Toni Rubio,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Bad Manners,
Lyres,
Nas,
Leonard Cohen,
Rotary Connection,
The Zeros,
The Leaves,
Lower 48,
Metal Thangz,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Radiohead,
The Motions,
Joyce Sims,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Anakelly,
Infiniti,
Curtis Mayfield,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Guru Guru,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Rites of Spring,
Smog,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Tim Buckley,
Flash Fearless,
Jeff Mills,
Robert Görl,
B.T. Express,
X-102,
Fela Kuti,
Schoolly D,
CMW,
The Skatalites,
David Bowie,
Malaria!,
Crime,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Kinks,
Massinfluence,
Chrome,
This Heat,
Hoover,
Black Bananas,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Tubeway Army,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Mummies,
Darondo,
Patti Smith,
Pere Ubu,
Tomorrow,
Qualms,
David Axelrod,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Bizarre Inc.,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Associates, The Associates, The Associates, The Associates.
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.