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 Argentina and from Delhi.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 EPMD to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Agitation Free. All the underground hits.
All The Invisible tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ultimate Spinach record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Hashim,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Roger Hodgson,
Swans,
The Last Poets,
Groovy Waters,
Aswad,
The Pretty Things,
The Black Dice,
It's A Beautiful Day,
New Order,
Nirvana,
Dawn Penn,
Sound Behaviour,
JFA,
X-102,
The Busters,
Reagan Youth,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Mad Mike,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Michelle Simonal,
Harpers Bizarre,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Au Pairs,
Rhythm & Sound,
Gang Starr,
L. Decosne,
The Durutti Column,
David Axelrod,
Minutemen,
K-Klass,
ABC,
Malaria!,
Vladislav Delay,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Model 500,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Glenn Branca,
Slick Rick,
Duran Duran,
Pagans,
Shoche,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Sonny Sharrock,
Letta Mbulu,
Wasted Youth,
The Evens,
Jerry's Kids,
The Offenders,
Dead Boys,
Gang of Four,
Curtis Mayfield,
Amon Düül II,
Lalann,
The Skatalites,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Brass Construction,
Man Eating Sloth,
Amazonics,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Matthew Bourne, Matthew Bourne, Matthew Bourne, Matthew Bourne.
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.