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 Benin and from Toronto.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Jawbox to the crunk 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 Ten City. All the underground hits.
All Gang Starr tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Moss Icon record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Arthur Verocai record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
One Last Wish,
Amon Düül II,
Flipper,
Reuben Wilson,
The Residents,
Little Man,
Scion,
FM Einheit,
Don Cherry,
Moebius,
Los Fastidios,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Peter & Gordon,
The Walker Brothers,
Japan,
Public Image Ltd.,
the Germs,
Simply Red,
James White and The Blacks,
Wings,
Scratch Acid,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Fugs,
Eve St. Jones,
Anakelly,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Curtis Mayfield,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Martian,
Sonny Sharrock,
World's Most,
Ossler,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
LL Cool J,
Drive Like Jehu,
48th St. Collective,
Grey Daturas,
Brand Nubian,
Deepchord,
Skaos,
The Count Five,
Basic Channel,
Sun City Girls,
Davy DMX,
Roxy Music,
Maleditus Sound,
Jesper Dahlback,
Unrelated Segments,
E-Dancer,
This Heat,
Pet Shop Boys,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Mantronix,
Delon & Dalcan,
Be Bop Deluxe,
These Immortal Souls,
Trumans Water,
Skarface,
The Detroit Cobras,
The Evens,
Mandrill,
Cal Tjader, Cal Tjader, Cal Tjader, Cal Tjader.
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.