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 Norway and from Seoul.
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 1965 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 theremin 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 The Kinks to the disco kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 New Order. All the underground hits.
All the Fania All-Stars tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cluster record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 theremin and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Main Source record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lightning Bolt,
Eric Copeland,
The Kinks,
Warsaw,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Mr. Review,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Fuzztones,
Josef K,
Skarface,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Index,
The Slackers,
Excepter,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Janne Schatter,
Robert Görl,
A Certain Ratio,
Colin Newman,
Oneida,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
the Slits,
The Invisible,
Guru Guru,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Bronski Beat,
Lakeside,
Whodini,
Connie Case,
Infiniti,
Jacob Miller,
DJ Style,
Reagan Youth,
Deadbeat,
Franke,
Glambeats Corp.,
The United States of America,
The Dave Clark Five,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Sonic Youth,
Y Pants,
Negative Approach,
Idris Muhammad,
Todd Rundgren,
FM Einheit,
Ken Boothe,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Radio Birdman,
Prince Buster,
JFA,
MC5,
The Modern Lovers,
the Bar-Kays,
The Electric Prunes,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Barracudas,
Minnie Riperton,
Scratch Acid,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Soul Sonic Force, Soul Sonic Force, Soul Sonic Force, Soul Sonic Force.
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.