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 Burundi and from New York.
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 1966 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the marimba 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 Scrapy to the grunge kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Warren Ellis. All the underground hits.
All These Immortal Souls tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gong 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Marine Girls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a rhodes.
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 Flesh Eaters,
The Searchers,
Procol Harum,
Delon & Dalcan,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Blues Magoos,
The Sound,
Lower 48,
Letta Mbulu,
Howard Jones,
8 Eyed Spy,
Second Layer,
The Stooges,
Aural Exciters,
CMW,
The Martian,
cv313,
Patti Smith,
Brand Nubian,
Kenny Larkin,
Moby Grape,
New Age Steppers,
Television Personalities,
David McCallum,
Blake Baxter,
John Holt,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Lebanon Hanover,
Sun City Girls,
The Toasters,
Sixth Finger,
The Durutti Column,
Todd Terry,
Jimmy McGriff,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Darondo,
Bobby Byrd,
Livin' Joy,
The Fire Engines,
Idris Muhammad,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Panda Bear,
Pierre Henry,
The Litter,
Toni Rubio,
Echospace,
Parry Music,
Carl Craig,
Supertramp,
Tropical Tobacco,
Scion,
The Moody Blues,
Half Japanese,
Eric Copeland,
Motorama,
Skriet,
Electric Light Orchestra,
FM Einheit,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Average White Band,
The Cure,
The Barracudas,
Saccharine Trust, Saccharine Trust, Saccharine Trust, Saccharine Trust.
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.