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 Bahrain and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 synthesizer 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 The Pretty Things to the rap kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Loose Ends. All the underground hits.
All Aaron Thompson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every In Retrospect record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 chamberlin and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rekid record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Aural Exciters,
Gang of Four,
Lebanon Hanover,
Jeff Mills,
Negative Approach,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Black Dice,
The Gories,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
New Age Steppers,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Oblivians,
Nico,
Iggy Pop,
The Music Machine,
Big Daddy Kane,
Ossler,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Lower 48,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Sound,
Pierre Henry,
Eurythmics,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
David Axelrod,
The Wake,
June Days,
DNA,
Moebius,
The Smoke,
Marine Girls,
Vladislav Delay,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Cecil Taylor,
Andrew Hill,
Scrapy,
Siglo XX,
Guru Guru,
Rapeman,
UT,
Eddi Front,
Brick,
Babytalk,
Bauhaus,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Move,
Radiohead,
Jerry's Kids,
Electric Prunes,
The Divine Comedy,
Donald Byrd,
Make Up,
The Velvet Underground,
Das Ding,
The Pretty Things,
Roxy Music,
Minor Threat,
Crispy Ambulance,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers, De La Soul & Jungle Brothers, De La Soul & Jungle Brothers, De La Soul & Jungle Brothers.
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.