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 Saudi Arabia and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1964 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 güiro 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 Nas to the rap kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Pantytec. All the underground hits.
All Idris Muhammad tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Alison Limerick 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ash Ra Tempel record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pagans,
Skaos,
Pierre Henry,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Skatalites,
Mr. Review,
Funkadelic,
Kayak,
Mary Jane Girls,
Joyce Sims,
Supertramp,
Anthony Braxton,
Joe Finger,
Mark Hollis,
Japan,
Bluetip,
Essential Logic,
Danielle Patucci,
Grey Daturas,
The Selecter,
Agent Orange,
Jeff Lynne,
Ten City,
Stiv Bators,
Gang Green,
PIL,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Wire,
The Barracudas,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
MC5,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Rakim,
Nik Kershaw,
Chris & Cosey,
Sonic Youth,
Alton Ellis,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Joy Division,
Technova,
Unwound,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Aaron Thompson,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
The Litter,
Godley & Creme,
Crash Course in Science,
Suicide,
Hasil Adkins,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Offenders,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Avey Tare,
Interpol,
Scrapy,
Matthew Halsall,
Brothers Johnson,
Angry Samoans,
Mad Mike,
Letta Mbulu, Letta Mbulu, Letta Mbulu, Letta Mbulu.
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.