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 Vietnam and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 DJ Sneak to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Sällskapet. All the underground hits.
All Lightning Bolt tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lee Hazlewood 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Curtis Mayfield record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eli Mardock,
Leonard Cohen,
PIL,
Jesper Dahlback,
Crispian St. Peters,
Kurtis Blow,
Minor Threat,
Danielle Patucci,
Mo-Dettes,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Schoolly D,
Neil Young,
F. McDonald,
The Tremeloes,
Jandek,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Vogues,
Malaria!,
Quadrant,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Desert Stars,
James White and The Blacks,
Kerri Chandler,
Letta Mbulu,
Jeff Mills,
Arcadia,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Aural Exciters,
Josef K,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Names,
Roxy Music,
Porter Ricks,
Cymande,
Jimmy McGriff,
Pantytec,
Warren Ellis,
The Real Kids,
Masters at Work,
the Human League,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Funky Four + One,
Sun Ra,
The Offenders,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
China Crisis,
Symarip,
Lungfish,
The Fire Engines,
Urselle,
Bush Tetras,
Bobby Byrd,
Black Bananas,
The Techniques,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Index,
The Dirtbombs,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Main Source,
Scratch Acid, Scratch Acid, Scratch Acid, Scratch Acid.
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.