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 Mozambique and from Shanghai.
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 1969 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the mellotron 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 AZ 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 Pulsallama. All the underground hits.
All Pole tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Chrome record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sun Ra Arkestra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Technova,
Boz Scaggs,
Tom Boy,
Bill Near,
Buzzcocks,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Godley & Creme,
Cybotron,
Agent Orange,
Stereo Dub,
MC5,
The Slackers,
Brick,
Agitation Free,
Thompson Twins,
The Fall,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Banda Bassotti,
Underground Resistance,
Boogie Down Productions,
Swans,
Jeff Mills,
The Divine Comedy,
Crooked Eye,
Man Eating Sloth,
the Fania All-Stars,
These Immortal Souls,
Joyce Sims,
Peter and Kerry,
Maurizio,
Pagans,
Bluetip,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Sun Ra,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Derrick May,
The Mojo Men,
Johnny Clarke,
Ponytail,
The Human League,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Don Cherry,
The Skatalites,
Nils Olav,
The Selecter,
Gang of Four,
Kenny Larkin,
Country Teasers,
Magazine,
The J.B.'s,
Porter Ricks,
Nation of Ulysses,
Jacques Brel,
EPMD,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Mummies,
The Monks,
Rhythim Is Rhythim, Rhythim Is Rhythim, Rhythim Is Rhythim, Rhythim Is Rhythim.
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.