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 Honduras and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1963 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Crooked Eye to the grunge 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 Sun Ra. All the underground hits.
All Adolescents tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every R.M.O. record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 oboe and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Fania All-Stars record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Fuzztones,
Matthew Halsall,
Minny Pops,
Suicide,
Audionom,
Monolake,
Rekid,
Fela Kuti,
Loose Ends,
Sam Rivers,
Model 500,
Franke,
Sound Behaviour,
Idris Muhammad,
Dawn Penn,
Unrelated Segments,
The Grass Roots,
The Golliwogs,
The Velvet Underground,
Livin' Joy,
Arthur Verocai,
Lindisfarne,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
kango's stein massive,
The Durutti Column,
Stockholm Monsters,
Accadde A,
Joy Division,
Glambeats Corp.,
Pole,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Fugs,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Dorothy Ashby,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Joensuu 1685,
Nation of Ulysses,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Aswad,
JFA,
Ultravox,
The Moleskins,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Porter Ricks,
Johnny Osbourne,
Rosa Yemen,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Kaleidoscope,
Electric Prunes,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Underground Resistance,
Ponytail,
The Red Krayola,
Lalann,
Niagra,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Kas Product, Kas Product, Kas Product, Kas Product.
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.