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 Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Mars to the techno kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Association. All the underground hits.
All Surgeon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kas Product record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eric B and Rakim,
Connie Case,
Essential Logic,
Black Moon,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Marvin Gaye,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Rotary Connection,
FM Einheit,
Ponytail,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Motorama,
The Vogues,
Bobby Byrd,
K-Klass,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Victims,
Janne Schatter,
The Raincoats,
Junior Murvin,
Jawbox,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Interpol,
The Durutti Column,
Pantytec,
Lee Hazlewood,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Fat Boys,
Joe Finger,
Rhythm & Sound,
Roy Ayers,
Rekid,
the Fania All-Stars,
Monks,
Mr. Review,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Shadows of Knight,
ABC,
Stockholm Monsters,
Gerry Rafferty,
Soft Machine,
R.M.O.,
Guru Guru,
The Blackbyrds,
Roger Hodgson,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Q and Not U,
Sound Behaviour,
Bill Near,
The New Christs,
Von Mondo,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Curtis Mayfield,
Ornette Coleman,
Basic Channel,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Jeff Mills,
Sixth Finger,
Jeru the Damaja,
Masters at Work,
48th St. Collective,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron.
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.