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 Somalia and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Tokyo.
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 sitar 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 Rhythm & Sound to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Sun City Girls. All the underground hits.
All The Sound tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Depeche Mode record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Scion record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Chrome,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Music Machine,
Talk Talk,
The Cure,
T. Rex,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Dennis Brown,
Joensuu 1685,
Essential Logic,
JFA,
Black Moon,
Donny Hathaway,
Black Flag,
AZ,
Alice Coltrane,
the Sonics,
Public Enemy,
T.S.O.L.,
The Fuzztones,
The Divine Comedy,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Mary Jane Girls,
Pere Ubu,
Aaron Thompson,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Cal Tjader,
Deepchord,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Lindisfarne,
Grandmaster Flash,
Danielle Patucci,
Dead Boys,
Agitation Free,
June Days,
Oneida,
Hoover,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Velvet Underground,
Albert Ayler,
The Index,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Babytalk,
The Monks,
Intrusion,
Nirvana,
Soul II Soul,
DJ Sneak,
Deadbeat,
Moss Icon,
Harmonia,
The Monochrome Set,
Guru Guru,
Absolute Body Control,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Cowsills,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Cluster,
Sun Ra, Sun Ra, Sun Ra, Sun Ra.
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.