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 Italy and from Lyon.
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 1969 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 synthesizer 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 Ajijia Myrayebe to the grime kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 The Blues Magoos. All the underground hits.
All Scrapy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Max Romeo record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Average White Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Robert Hood,
Trumans Water,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Aswad,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Lungfish,
Man Parrish,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Fire Engines,
The Cowsills,
Robert Wyatt,
Franke,
ABBA,
Flipper,
8 Eyed Spy,
kango's stein massive,
Mandrill,
The Dave Clark Five,
Mars,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Soul II Soul,
Shuggie Otis,
U.S. Maple,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Don Cherry,
The Fugs,
Ludus,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Cluster,
Sister Nancy,
the Soft Cell,
Boogie Down Productions,
Matthew Bourne,
Prince Buster,
Junior Murvin,
The Doors,
Drexciya,
Quadrant,
Skaos,
The Human League,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Selecter,
Alice Coltrane,
Au Pairs,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Fortunes,
Ten City,
Animal Collective,
Barry Ungar,
Eve St. Jones,
Loose Ends,
Andrew Hill,
Jeff Mills,
Desert Stars,
Mo-Dettes,
Jandek,
Radiohead,
Todd Rundgren,
Tim Buckley,
World's Most,
F. McDonald,
The Smoke, The Smoke, The Smoke, The Smoke.
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.