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 Bolivia and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1961 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 The Evens to the crunk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Don Cherry. All the underground hits.
All Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Absolute Body Control 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Peter and Kerry,
Donny Hathaway,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Supertramp,
The Zeros,
Joey Negro,
John Lydon,
Black Bananas,
David McCallum,
Basic Channel,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Gregory Isaacs,
Make Up,
The Seeds,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Man Parrish,
Hardrive,
The Last Poets,
Public Enemy,
Marmalade,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Johnny Osbourne,
Slick Rick,
The American Breed,
The Skatalites,
Bill Near,
Ohio Players,
The Barracudas,
Pere Ubu,
Derrick Morgan,
The Blues Magoos,
Godley & Creme,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Sparks,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
World's Most,
Magma,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Wings,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Mad Mike,
The United States of America,
Arab on Radar,
Flash Fearless,
Deepchord,
Popol Vuh,
DJ Sneak,
Ludus,
The Leaves,
The Fall,
DJ Style,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Raincoats,
La Düsseldorf,
The Moleskins,
Soul II Soul,
Lou Reed,
Sonic Youth,
The Smoke,
Warren Ellis,
Hoover,
The Names, The Names, The Names, The Names.
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.