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 Chile and from Seoul.
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 1963 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Laurel Aitken to the techno kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Maleditus Sound. All the underground hits.
All The Fugs 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Michelle Simonal record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bizarre Inc.,
David McCallum,
Chris & Cosey,
Lightning Bolt,
Matthew Bourne,
Isaac Hayes,
Alphaville,
Blake Baxter,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Man Parrish,
Excepter,
China Crisis,
Soul II Soul,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Aloha Tigers,
the Germs,
The Knickerbockers,
PIL,
Max Romeo,
Hashim,
Idris Muhammad,
Patti Smith,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Sight & Sound,
Scion,
The Five Americans,
Spoonie Gee,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Moss Icon,
Mr. Review,
Black Moon,
New Age Steppers,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Shadows of Knight,
Hasil Adkins,
Banda Bassotti,
Grey Daturas,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Robert Wyatt,
The Techniques,
Barbara Tucker,
Radiohead,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Durutti Column,
Byron Stingily,
Crispy Ambulance,
Accadde A,
Ronnie Foster,
Au Pairs,
John Lydon,
Robert Hood,
Sarah Menescal,
These Immortal Souls,
Rotary Connection,
Judy Mowatt,
Wally Richardson,
Eric B and Rakim,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Jeru the Damaja,
Alton Ellis, Alton Ellis, Alton Ellis, Alton Ellis.
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.