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 Guatemala and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1965 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Lower 48 to the rap 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 The Cowsills. All the underground hits.
All Bob Dylan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Derrick May 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a A Certain Ratio record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Carl Craig,
Glenn Branca,
Matthew Halsall,
Niagra,
Big Daddy Kane,
Dawn Penn,
Lebanon Hanover,
Minny Pops,
Warren Ellis,
Cameo,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Steve Hackett,
Severed Heads,
The Cowsills,
Sonic Youth,
Surgeon,
Dorothy Ashby,
Subhumans,
Scan 7,
Public Image Ltd.,
Bush Tetras,
Thompson Twins,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Nation of Ulysses,
Faust,
Mo-Dettes,
F. McDonald,
Chrome,
The Dirtbombs,
X-Ray Spex,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Quantec,
The Cosmic Jokers,
La Düsseldorf,
Iggy Pop,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Dual Sessions,
Michelle Simonal,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Yellowson,
10cc,
Lalo Schifrin,
In Retrospect,
The Barracudas,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Altered Images,
Chris & Cosey,
The Golliwogs,
The Moleskins,
Arcadia,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Derrick Morgan,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Camouflage,
Sun Ra,
The Tremeloes,
The Victims,
Technova,
Monks,
Radio Birdman,
The Pretty Things,
Bootsy Collins, Bootsy Collins, Bootsy Collins, Bootsy Collins.
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.