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 Thailand and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 DJ Style 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 The Moleskins. All the underground hits.
All Lindisfarne tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jeff Mills record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 an oboe and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lakeside record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bill Wells,
Youth Brigade,
MC5,
Vainqueur,
Ornette Coleman,
Lebanon Hanover,
Surgeon,
Sister Nancy,
Anthony Braxton,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Isaac Hayes,
China Crisis,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Jawbox,
Sound Behaviour,
Joe Smooth,
Crooked Eye,
Fad Gadget,
Aswad,
Patti Smith,
The Black Dice,
Smog,
Roger Hodgson,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Section 25,
Little Man,
Schoolly D,
Angry Samoans,
Guru Guru,
the Slits,
Amon Düül II,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Eve St. Jones,
Soulsonic Force,
Letta Mbulu,
The Star Department,
Danielle Patucci,
The Dirtbombs,
Essential Logic,
Pharoah Sanders,
the Sonics,
James White and The Blacks,
Urselle,
The Litter,
Thompson Twins,
Banda Bassotti,
A Certain Ratio,
Marcia Griffiths,
Intrusion,
The Zeros,
Neu!,
Todd Terry,
Alton Ellis,
The Birthday Party,
Sight & Sound,
Chris Corsano,
John Coltrane,
Tim Buckley, Tim Buckley, Tim Buckley, Tim Buckley.
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.