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 Morocco and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 Delhi and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the snare 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 Terry Callier 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 Gerry Rafferty. All the underground hits.
All The Gories tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Busters 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 an arpeggiator and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Shadows of Knight 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?
Bluetip,
The Searchers,
Oneida,
Essential Logic,
Grandmaster Flash,
Visage,
Magma,
The Raincoats,
Interpol,
David Bowie,
the Normal,
Franke,
Letta Mbulu,
Cal Tjader,
Shuggie Otis,
Freddie Wadling,
Bizarre Inc.,
Curtis Mayfield,
This Heat,
New Age Steppers,
Yellowson,
The Kinks,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Sonic Youth,
8 Eyed Spy,
Zero Boys,
Toni Rubio,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Eric Copeland,
Mission of Burma,
Warren Ellis,
the Sonics,
Pharoah Sanders,
Eric Dolphy,
Livin' Joy,
The Mojo Men,
Faraquet,
H. Thieme,
Ituana,
Slick Rick,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Joe Smooth,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
KRS-One,
Man Eating Sloth,
Second Layer,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
New Order,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Fall,
Monolake,
Youth Brigade,
Mary Jane Girls,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Basic Channel,
Cecil Taylor,
Oblivians,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Thompson Twins,
Television Personalities, Television Personalities, Television Personalities, Television Personalities.
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.