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 Zimbabwe and from Winnipeg.
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 1961 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 DJ Style to the grime kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Deakin. All the underground hits.
All Outsiders tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Move 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Massinfluence record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Unrelated Segments,
New Order,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Matthew Halsall,
Crispy Ambulance,
Flash Fearless,
Stiv Bators,
Scientists,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Chris & Cosey,
Echospace,
Tres Demented,
Cluster,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Monks,
The Trojans,
Kevin Saunderson,
Buzzcocks,
Eve St. Jones,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Delta 5,
The Divine Comedy,
Terrestrial Tones,
Todd Rundgren,
Dennis Brown,
Rosa Yemen,
June of 44,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Tommy Roe,
X-102,
The Fire Engines,
Glenn Branca,
Barry Ungar,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Velvet Underground,
Sun Ra,
Skarface,
Steve Hackett,
Mandrill,
The Raincoats,
Reagan Youth,
Aswad,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Victims,
The Dave Clark Five,
Gichy Dan,
Jerry's Kids,
Robert Görl,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Quantec,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Oblivians,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Dawn Penn,
Godley & Creme,
EPMD,
Basic Channel,
Henry Cow,
Girls At Our Best!,
Colin Newman,
Rekid,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Toasters, The Toasters, The Toasters, The Toasters.
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.