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 Grenada and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1961 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the organ 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 Gang Starr to the dance 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 Matthew Halsall. All the underground hits.
All Fela Kuti tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ultravox record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Reuben Wilson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Davy DMX,
Fela Kuti,
The Happenings,
Eddi Front,
Amon Düül,
L. Decosne,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Panda Bear,
The Buckinghams,
Albert Ayler,
Zero Boys,
Joyce Sims,
Basic Channel,
Anthony Braxton,
Oneida,
MDC,
Eli Mardock,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Connie Case,
John Cale,
Graham Central Station,
Flamin' Groovies,
Althea and Donna,
Lucky Dragons,
Scientists,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Harmonia,
Whodini,
Pulsallama,
The Detroit Cobras,
the Bar-Kays,
Dennis Brown,
The Kinks,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Hashim,
X-101,
Rosa Yemen,
Au Pairs,
Surgeon,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Dirtbombs,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Fear,
Kayak,
EPMD,
Ultimate Spinach,
Black Pus,
Alphaville,
Nas,
The Slackers,
Rakim,
The Toasters,
Dawn Penn,
The Busters,
Todd Terry,
kango's stein massive,
Lee Hazlewood,
Crooked Eye,
Jesper Dahlback,
Lyres,
The Raincoats, The Raincoats, The Raincoats, The Raincoats.
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.