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 Uganda and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1960 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 güiro 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 Scan 7 to the funk 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 Ituana. All the underground hits.
All Soul Sonic Force tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Yellowson 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a mellotron 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 güiro and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Pussy Galore,
T. Rex,
Franke,
Grauzone,
Bobby Byrd,
The Searchers,
Graham Central Station,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Television,
Thee Headcoats,
Siglo XX,
The Pretty Things,
Rekid,
Black Sheep,
Section 25,
Juan Atkins,
Essential Logic,
Dark Day,
Lightning Bolt,
China Crisis,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Blake Baxter,
Panda Bear,
Pantaleimon,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Index,
Sandy B,
Jeff Mills,
Curtis Mayfield,
Eve St. Jones,
Niagra,
Neil Young,
Eric B and Rakim,
Joy Division,
Scott Walker,
Kas Product,
the Slits,
The Trojans,
Maleditus Sound,
Unwound,
Gerry Rafferty,
B.T. Express,
cv313,
Piero Umiliani,
Icehouse,
The Human League,
Audionom,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The Tremeloes,
Barry Ungar,
Matthew Halsall,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Slackers,
Crash Course in Science,
Laurel Aitken,
T.S.O.L.,
The Busters,
Shoche,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Spandau Ballet,
Hardrive, Hardrive, Hardrive, Hardrive.
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.