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 Mongolia and from Manchester.
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 1963 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Juan Atkins to the punk 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 Jandek. All the underground hits.
All The Dave Clark Five tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Accadde A record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Blake Baxter record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Soft Cell,
Monolake,
Marshall Jefferson,
Magma,
Country Joe & The Fish,
U.S. Maple,
Ralphi Rosario,
Popol Vuh,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Tres Demented,
Freddie Wadling,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Dual Sessions,
X-101,
Idris Muhammad,
The Pretty Things,
Bootsy Collins,
Grandmaster Flash,
Yusef Lateef,
Aswad,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Skaos,
The Fire Engines,
Quantec,
Judy Mowatt,
Animal Collective,
Amon Düül II,
Clear Light,
Henry Cow,
Goldenarms,
Ultravox,
Amazonics,
Fat Boys,
Swell Maps,
Sonny Sharrock,
Matthew Bourne,
Johnny Osbourne,
Rod Modell,
OOIOO,
Cecil Taylor,
Tom Boy,
The Kinks,
The Last Poets,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Echospace,
The Neon Judgement,
The Monks,
Gang of Four,
Blossom Toes,
Soul Sonic Force,
Kevin Saunderson,
Neil Young,
Lightning Bolt,
Bauhaus,
Maleditus Sound,
Drexciya,
Talk Talk,
Electric Prunes,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Arcadia,
Slick Rick,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.