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 Latvia and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1968 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Madrid.
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 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 Scratch Acid to the techno kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Fall. All the underground hits.
All Rufus Thomas tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gang Green record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Warren Ellis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Stiv Bators,
E-Dancer,
Moby Grape,
AZ,
David Axelrod,
The Kinks,
Animal Collective,
The Star Department,
Ice-T,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Slick Rick,
Al Stewart,
The Vogues,
Chrome,
Rakim,
The Grass Roots,
Jesper Dahlback,
Bronski Beat,
Jerry's Kids,
The Standells,
Gastr Del Sol,
Dark Day,
The Barracudas,
Gang Gang Dance,
Skaos,
The Walker Brothers,
kango's stein massive,
Ronan,
Sister Nancy,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Lungfish,
The American Breed,
Marcia Griffiths,
Gang Starr,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Funky Four + One,
Erykah Badu,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Arthur Verocai,
The Human League,
The Tremeloes,
8 Eyed Spy,
Cameo,
Curtis Mayfield,
Marshall Jefferson,
Matthew Halsall,
Easy Going,
Glenn Branca,
the Bar-Kays,
Desert Stars,
Rufus Thomas,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Jeru the Damaja,
Jeff Mills,
Angry Samoans,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Howard Jones,
The Index,
Supertramp,
Stetsasonic,
Radiopuhelimet,
Moss Icon,
Deadbeat, Deadbeat, Deadbeat, Deadbeat.
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.