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 Sudan and from Tehran.
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 1963 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Ossler to the dance kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Manfred Mann's Earth Band. All the underground hits.
All Tres Demented tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Basic Channel record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Shuggie Otis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
World's Most,
Matthew Bourne,
The Angels of Light,
Swell Maps,
Rotary Connection,
Technova,
AZ,
Scan 7,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Isaac Hayes,
Pet Shop Boys,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Babytalk,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Deadbeat,
FM Einheit,
Tom Boy,
Amazonics,
Lindisfarne,
Y Pants,
the Sonics,
The Gories,
Nirvana,
Piero Umiliani,
Tommy Roe,
Oneida,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Barrington Levy,
The Fuzztones,
Sixth Finger,
the Bar-Kays,
Shoche,
The Victims,
Marvin Gaye,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
The Flesh Eaters,
The Motions,
Au Pairs,
Gang of Four,
The Blackbyrds,
Grauzone,
Joe Finger,
Simply Red,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Mary Jane Girls,
Funky Four + One,
Franke,
B.T. Express,
Bang On A Can,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Yusef Lateef,
Stiv Bators,
The Gladiators,
PIL,
Blake Baxter,
The J.B.'s,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
The Fire Engines,
Kas Product, Kas Product, Kas Product, Kas Product.
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.