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 Ukraine and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 808 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 Q65 to the grime kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Fall. All the underground hits.
All Notorious Big And Bone Thugs 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 rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Mantronix record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ralphi Rosario,
The Mummies,
AZ,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Supertramp,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Schoolly D,
The Residents,
Gastr Del Sol,
Babytalk,
Roxette,
Accadde A,
Goldenarms,
Bill Wells,
Deadbeat,
Make Up,
Zero Boys,
One Last Wish,
The Wake,
The Invisible,
Roxy Music,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Eyeless In Gaza,
The Fire Engines,
Dave Gahan,
the Bar-Kays,
Bauhaus,
Suicide,
The Index,
Girls At Our Best!,
Isaac Hayes,
The Durutti Column,
Laurel Aitken,
The Smiths,
Bang On A Can,
Derrick Morgan,
Ultravox,
Ossler,
Brothers Johnson,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Moleskins,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The Divine Comedy,
Scratch Acid,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Henry Cow,
Cluster,
New Age Steppers,
Hasil Adkins,
Yellowson,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Sound Behaviour,
Johnny Clarke,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Agitation Free,
Gang Green,
UT,
The Young Rascals,
Country Joe & The Fish,
World's Most, World's Most, World's Most, World's Most.
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.