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 Monaco and from London.
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 1960 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 The Red Krayola to the crunk 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 Martian. All the underground hits.
All Soulsonic Force tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Gun Club record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Slick Rick,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Black Flag,
Can,
Pharoah Sanders,
Silicon Teens,
Deepchord,
Dave Gahan,
Skarface,
OOIOO,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Cowsills,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Spandau Ballet,
Los Fastidios,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The J.B.'s,
Monks,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Pierre Henry,
Lucky Dragons,
The Electric Prunes,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Rapeman,
Sugar Minott,
Ohio Players,
Nirvana,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
A Flock of Seagulls,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Arthur Verocai,
Carl Craig,
Mission of Burma,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Shadows of Knight,
Andrew Hill,
Skaos,
Motorama,
Suicide,
Matthew Bourne,
The Fuzztones,
Wally Richardson,
The Martian,
Thompson Twins,
Essential Logic,
Bobby Sherman,
Harpers Bizarre,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Fugs,
Brand Nubian,
Pagans,
Shuggie Otis,
The Standells,
Niagra,
The Blackbyrds,
Crispian St. Peters,
Lalo Schifrin,
Lou Reed,
Albert Ayler,
The Grass Roots,
Amon Düül,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam.
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.