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 Saudi Arabia and from Winnipeg.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Country Joe & The Fish to the punk 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 Freddie Wadling. All the underground hits.
All Hasil Adkins tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Funky Four + One record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Anakelly,
New Order,
Jerry's Kids,
Guru Guru,
Don Cherry,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Sex Pistols,
Nick Fraelich,
The J.B.'s,
L. Decosne,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Joensuu 1685,
Television Personalities,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Hoover,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Grass Roots,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Grandmaster Flash,
Moby Grape,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
New Age Steppers,
B.T. Express,
Zero Boys,
Ponytail,
Severed Heads,
the Germs,
Panda Bear,
CMW,
Groovy Waters,
Danielle Patucci,
LL Cool J,
10cc,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
The Gun Club,
Minnie Riperton,
Godley & Creme,
Throbbing Gristle,
Letta Mbulu,
Average White Band,
Ornette Coleman,
Howard Jones,
Audionom,
R.M.O.,
Altered Images,
The Real Kids,
Surgeon,
Lebanon Hanover,
Quando Quango,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Walker Brothers,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Durutti Column,
Amon Düül,
Eddi Front,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Yellowson,
Sun City Girls, Sun City Girls, Sun City Girls, Sun City Girls.
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.