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 St Kitts & Nevis and from Manila.
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 1967 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Eddi Front to the techno kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx. All the underground hits.
All World's Most tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bluetip record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Martian,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
MDC,
ABBA,
This Heat,
Drexciya,
Barclay James Harvest,
Tim Buckley,
Sarah Menescal,
The Happenings,
Hashim,
Symarip,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Gun Club,
Eric Dolphy,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Gichy Dan,
Zapp,
Stiv Bators,
Saccharine Trust,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Oneida,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Warren Ellis,
Desert Stars,
Easy Going,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
the Human League,
Underground Resistance,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Pantaleimon,
Quando Quango,
The Associates,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Cowsills,
Marshall Jefferson,
Howard Jones,
Marc Almond,
It's A Beautiful Day,
FM Einheit,
Bobby Sherman,
Slave,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Matthew Halsall,
Terrestrial Tones,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Fall,
Young Marble Giants,
Gastr Del Sol,
Soft Cell,
Dual Sessions,
Nas,
Pharoah Sanders,
DJ Style,
Accadde A,
Siglo XX,
Cal Tjader,
Silicon Teens,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Pole,
Sex Pistols, Sex Pistols, Sex Pistols, Sex Pistols.
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.