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 Azerbaijan and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 linndrum 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 Royal Trux to the rap 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 Brothers Johnson. All the underground hits.
All Royal Trux tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pierre Henry 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ornette Coleman record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Subhumans,
Y Pants,
Bill Wells,
Bill Near,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Tom Boy,
Derrick Morgan,
Kevin Saunderson,
Chris Corsano,
Excepter,
ABBA,
The Gories,
Delta 5,
Dennis Brown,
Animal Collective,
Bobby Byrd,
Tommy Roe,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Tears for Fears,
Flipper,
Reagan Youth,
Ornette Coleman,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Fugs,
Sonic Youth,
Drexciya,
Maleditus Sound,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Royal Trux,
Liliput,
Thee Headcoats,
The Gap Band,
The Birthday Party,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Simply Red,
Frankie Knuckles,
Rapeman,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
DNA,
MC5,
Index,
Motorama,
Faust,
The Star Department,
This Heat,
Urselle,
Skaos,
Barrington Levy,
Negative Approach,
Spoonie Gee,
Black Sheep,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Hardrive,
Organ,
Ossler,
T.S.O.L.,
Shoche, Shoche, Shoche, Shoche.
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.