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 Gambia and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Reuben Wilson to the jazz 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 Cluster. All the underground hits.
All One Last Wish tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Simply Red 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jesper Dahlbäck 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?
the Soft Cell,
Babytalk,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Amon Düül,
Vladislav Delay,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Hashim,
Liliput,
Sam Rivers,
The Busters,
The United States of America,
Yaz,
Roger Hodgson,
Girls At Our Best!,
Tim Buckley,
Connie Case,
Minutemen,
The Searchers,
FM Einheit,
Isaac Hayes,
ABBA,
Toni Rubio,
Pagans,
Desert Stars,
James White and The Blacks,
UT,
The Leaves,
Ten City,
Jeff Mills,
Zapp,
Dennis Brown,
Gregory Isaacs,
Ronnie Foster,
Sunsets and Hearts,
John Foxx,
Soul Sonic Force,
Suicide,
Kurtis Blow,
Yellowson,
Eden Ahbez,
Newcleus,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Marmalade,
Technova,
The Pretty Things,
Shoche,
Suburban Knight,
Pharoah Sanders,
Man Parrish,
Pussy Galore,
Rotary Connection,
Severed Heads,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Aural Exciters,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Jacob Miller,
Lou Reed,
Crispian St. Peters,
The Mummies,
Spoonie Gee, Spoonie Gee, Spoonie Gee, Spoonie Gee.
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.