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 Angola and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1964 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Philadelphia.
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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the clarinet 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 Agent Orange to the electroclash 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 Amon Düül II. All the underground hits.
All Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every David Axelrod record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Grandmaster Flash,
PIL,
The Smoke,
Brand Nubian,
Jeff Mills,
CMW,
Nik Kershaw,
Second Layer,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Ronnie Foster,
Rufus Thomas,
Q and Not U,
Bob Dylan,
Excepter,
Gang of Four,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Man Eating Sloth,
Anthony Braxton,
The Stooges,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Brothers Johnson,
Idris Muhammad,
Surgeon,
These Immortal Souls,
Rapeman,
Pulsallama,
The Leaves,
B.T. Express,
The Five Americans,
The Music Machine,
Johnny Osbourne,
Rod Modell,
Sister Nancy,
Main Source,
The Standells,
Yaz,
Buzzcocks,
Drexciya,
Vladislav Delay,
Stereo Dub,
Girls At Our Best!,
Los Fastidios,
Kaleidoscope,
Funkadelic,
Adolescents,
Hardrive,
The Wake,
The Moleskins,
Donald Byrd,
Sandy B,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Soft Machine,
The Red Krayola,
Supertramp,
Fatback Band,
James White and The Blacks,
Cymande,
Michelle Simonal,
Godley & Creme,
Radiohead, Radiohead, Radiohead, Radiohead.
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.