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 Bhutan and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Alton Ellis to the jazz 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 Jawbox. All the underground hits.
All La Düsseldorf tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Swans 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Josef K record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Con Funk Shun,
Crispy Ambulance,
Freddie Wadling,
ABC,
Warren Ellis,
Accadde A,
Metal Thangz,
Alton Ellis,
The Invisible,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Saints,
The Black Dice,
The Searchers,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Knickerbockers,
Gang Green,
Jawbox,
Can,
Albert Ayler,
Underground Resistance,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Supertramp,
Howard Jones,
Mo-Dettes,
The Blues Magoos,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Electric Prunes,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Pagans,
Parry Music,
Crash Course in Science,
Average White Band,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Warsaw,
Quantec,
The Walker Brothers,
Byron Stingily,
Eurythmics,
U.S. Maple,
Boredoms,
Fela Kuti,
Johnny Osbourne,
Niagra,
The Music Machine,
The Mummies,
EPMD,
Second Layer,
The Dead C,
The Move,
Lee Hazlewood,
Peter & Gordon,
Television,
PIL,
Bobby Sherman,
Magma,
Bluetip,
Ludus,
Scrapy,
Agitation Free,
Kevin Saunderson,
Essential Logic, Essential Logic, Essential Logic, Essential Logic.
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.