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 Turkmenistan and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1960 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Parry Music to the grime 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 Sarah Menescal. All the underground hits.
All Quando Quango tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Deakin record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 clarinet and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jandek record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kenny Larkin,
John Coltrane,
Derrick Morgan,
Blake Baxter,
Audionom,
R.M.O.,
Piero Umiliani,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Blancmange,
Peter & Gordon,
The Grass Roots,
The Five Americans,
Gastr Del Sol,
Sugar Minott,
Man Eating Sloth,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Sun City Girls,
Nas,
Delta 5,
Lebanon Hanover,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Agitation Free,
Gregory Isaacs,
Grandmaster Flash,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Half Japanese,
John Holt,
Yazoo,
The Motions,
The Slits,
Camouflage,
Matthew Bourne,
The Busters,
Sight & Sound,
New Order,
The Shadows of Knight,
Curtis Mayfield,
Essential Logic,
Cluster,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Joe Finger,
Arcadia,
The Dirtbombs,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Stiv Bators,
Funky Four + One,
The Birthday Party,
Bill Wells,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Seeds,
Minor Threat,
MDC,
Mars,
The Remains,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Yaz,
Davy DMX,
Dual Sessions,
Boz Scaggs,
Stetsasonic,
FM Einheit,
X-101,
Be Bop Deluxe, Be Bop Deluxe, Be Bop Deluxe, Be Bop Deluxe.
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.