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 Mali and from Stockholm.
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 1966 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the 808 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 Crime to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Pet Shop Boys. All the underground hits.
All Crime tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Sound 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Scratch Acid record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Fuzztones,
The Last Poets,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Q and Not U,
Laurel Aitken,
Joy Division,
La Düsseldorf,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Kurtis Blow,
10cc,
Livin' Joy,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Kevin Saunderson,
Crooked Eye,
Delta 5,
The Five Americans,
Reagan Youth,
The Leaves,
Amon Düül II,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Fire Engines,
Brothers Johnson,
Isaac Hayes,
Infiniti,
Ice-T,
The Dead C,
F. McDonald,
Scan 7,
The Velvet Underground,
Mandrill,
Arcadia,
Buzzcocks,
Symarip,
KRS-One,
Robert Hood,
48th St. Collective,
a-ha,
Piero Umiliani,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The Knickerbockers,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Martian,
Icehouse,
Eric Dolphy,
Amon Düül,
The Raincoats,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Throbbing Gristle,
The Barracudas,
John Lydon,
Crispy Ambulance,
Fad Gadget,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Crime,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Marmalade,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Smoke,
Spoonie Gee, Spoonie Gee, Spoonie Gee, Spoonie Gee.
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.