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 Sierra Leone and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Ash Ra Tempel to the electroclash 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 Radiohead. All the underground hits.
All Jerry's Kids tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kerri Chandler record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 a mellotron and a spring reverb 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 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Reuben Wilson,
Monks,
Matthew Halsall,
The Mummies,
Drexciya,
Camberwell Now,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Ronan,
Kas Product,
ABBA,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Nation of Ulysses,
Heaven 17,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Dennis Brown,
Gang Gang Dance,
cv313,
The Index,
Amon Düül,
Chrome,
Tom Boy,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Cure,
Avey Tare,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Archie Shepp,
The Tremeloes,
Harpers Bizarre,
Crispian St. Peters,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Spandau Ballet,
Q65,
Livin' Joy,
Bill Near,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Rapeman,
The Slits,
Alton Ellis,
The Mojo Men,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Thompson Twins,
Donald Byrd,
The Remains,
The Fugs,
Wasted Youth,
Stockholm Monsters,
Das Ding,
New Order,
Roxette,
Soft Machine,
DJ Style,
B.T. Express,
The Modern Lovers,
Khruangbin,
The Smoke,
The Trojans,
X-101,
Pharoah Sanders,
Kurtis Blow,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Alarm Clocks,
Von Mondo,
Lou Reed, Lou Reed, Lou Reed, Lou Reed.
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.