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 Guyana and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez 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 1960 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Copenhagen.
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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Sarah Menescal to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Aaron Thompson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Josef K record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Agitation Free record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Tim Buckley,
Marmalade,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Howard Jones,
R.M.O.,
Lakeside,
Silicon Teens,
Lucky Dragons,
The Slackers,
D'Angelo,
Yellowson,
Peter and Kerry,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Busters,
KRS-One,
Khruangbin,
Camberwell Now,
The Fugs,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Jacques Brel,
Marc Almond,
The Pop Group,
Marshall Jefferson,
Mr. Review,
The Skatalites,
Young Marble Giants,
Cecil Taylor,
Saccharine Trust,
Bob Dylan,
Black Pus,
Wasted Youth,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Gladiators,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Roger Hodgson,
K-Klass,
Das Ding,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Maurizio,
Aloha Tigers,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Cowsills,
Bad Manners,
Moby Grape,
Goldenarms,
Avey Tare,
Prince Buster,
Fatback Band,
Iggy Pop,
Crime,
The Names,
Blake Baxter,
Marcia Griffiths,
Sugar Minott,
The Dead C,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Gang Green,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Monks,
Aaron Thompson, Aaron Thompson, Aaron Thompson, Aaron Thompson.
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.