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 Tuvalu and from Columbus.
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 1966 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Jerry Gold Smith to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Minor Threat. All the underground hits.
All Amon Düül II tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Terrestrial Tones record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 a synthesizer and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Youth Brigade record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bang On A Can,
LL Cool J,
Harmonia,
Chris & Cosey,
Kerrie Biddell,
Vladislav Delay,
Curtis Mayfield,
Lalo Schifrin,
Jeff Mills,
Los Fastidios,
The Star Department,
The Dead C,
Maleditus Sound,
Michelle Simonal,
Mad Mike,
Mars,
June Days,
Jerry's Kids,
Severed Heads,
Echospace,
Robert Hood,
The Smoke,
Sister Nancy,
Black Bananas,
Frankie Knuckles,
Quantec,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Neu!,
Liliput,
Nik Kershaw,
Outsiders,
Barrington Levy,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Warren Ellis,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
U.S. Maple,
Avey Tare,
The Fortunes,
KRS-One,
Chrome,
Rod Modell,
Das Ding,
Siglo XX,
Underground Resistance,
Bronski Beat,
Rufus Thomas,
The Vogues,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Raincoats,
Blancmange,
Fugazi,
Boredoms,
Zero Boys,
Q65,
48th St. Collective,
Wally Richardson,
Juan Atkins,
Henry Cow,
Bauhaus,
Chris Corsano,
Ohio Players, Ohio Players, Ohio Players, Ohio Players.
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.