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 Japan and from Calgary.
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 1966 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the güiro 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 Lebanon Hanover to the rock kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane. All the underground hits.
All Marvin Gaye tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Vogues record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Yusef Lateef record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
10cc,
Matthew Bourne,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Laurel Aitken,
Flipper,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Los Fastidios,
Index,
Amazonics,
Alphaville,
T.S.O.L.,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Graham Central Station,
Andrew Hill,
Bob Dylan,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Aural Exciters,
Hashim,
Skarface,
Black Bananas,
Patti Smith,
Joy Division,
Kaleidoscope,
Robert Görl,
FM Einheit,
Surgeon,
Byron Stingily,
Wasted Youth,
DJ Sneak,
Rosa Yemen,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Tomorrow,
World's Most,
Bang On A Can,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Parry Music,
Steve Hackett,
The Sonics,
Sixth Finger,
Roxy Music,
The American Breed,
Little Man,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Spandau Ballet,
Harpers Bizarre,
LL Cool J,
The Associates,
Donald Byrd,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Negative Approach,
The Litter,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Barbara Tucker,
Whodini,
Young Marble Giants,
Supertramp,
Skriet,
Black Moon,
Radiopuhelimet,
Kurtis Blow,
Curtis Mayfield,
Fifty Foot Hose, Fifty Foot Hose, Fifty Foot Hose, Fifty Foot Hose.
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.