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 United Kingdom and from Mumbai.
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 1964 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Sound Behaviour to the dance kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Black Bananas. All the underground hits.
All Model 500 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bob Dylan 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Moody Blues record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Jimmy McGriff,
Gichy Dan,
Sight & Sound,
Sonny Sharrock,
Marmalade,
Connie Case,
Kevin Saunderson,
Lakeside,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Beau Brummels,
Deadbeat,
Tom Boy,
Zapp,
Royal Trux,
Spandau Ballet,
Urselle,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Byron Stingily,
Ultimate Spinach,
Sarah Menescal,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Evens,
The Dave Clark Five,
Joe Finger,
Television Personalities,
Spoonie Gee,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Flesh Eaters,
Letta Mbulu,
Gerry Rafferty,
Silicon Teens,
Sex Pistols,
This Heat,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Iggy Pop,
Excepter,
Index,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Kayak,
Amon Düül II,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Cure,
The Victims,
Technova,
Nick Fraelich,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Gang Gang Dance,
Porter Ricks,
Terry Callier,
Agitation Free,
Donny Hathaway,
Erykah Badu,
Grey Daturas,
Dark Day,
Bizarre Inc.,
AZ,
Hasil Adkins,
Public Enemy,
Alison Limerick, Alison Limerick, Alison Limerick, Alison Limerick.
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.