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 Egypt and from Madrid.
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 1969 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 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 Babytalk to the rock kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Big Daddy Kane. All the underground hits.
All Altered Images tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kool G Rap & DJ Polo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eden Ahbez,
Boogie Down Productions,
Lungfish,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Drive Like Jehu,
Sugar Minott,
Patti Smith,
The Trojans,
MDC,
The Leaves,
Youth Brigade,
Mo-Dettes,
Quadrant,
DJ Style,
The Raincoats,
Dead Boys,
Delta 5,
The Modern Lovers,
the Sonics,
Lakeside,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Fuzztones,
John Foxx,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Real Kids,
Sound Behaviour,
The Offenders,
Colin Newman,
La Düsseldorf,
Lee Hazlewood,
June Days,
Unrelated Segments,
Lalo Schifrin,
Rites of Spring,
The Moleskins,
Judy Mowatt,
Hoover,
The Zeros,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Joy Division,
Hardrive,
Lower 48,
Icehouse,
The Durutti Column,
Mad Mike,
Vainqueur,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Gregory Isaacs,
Avey Tare,
Bootsy Collins,
The Angels of Light,
Chris Corsano,
Ten City,
Kerri Chandler,
Peter and Kerry,
AZ,
Public Enemy,
Hot Snakes,
Matthew Bourne,
Silicon Teens,
Sun Ra,
Moss Icon, Moss Icon, Moss Icon, Moss Icon.
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.