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 Belarus and from Milan.
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 1968 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Halifax.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
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 Anthony Braxton to the funk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Fatback Band. All the underground hits.
All Unrelated Segments tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bobby Sherman 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Justin Hinds & The Dominoes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Index,
Von Mondo,
China Crisis,
Marvin Gaye,
Marcia Griffiths,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Yazoo,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Sight & Sound,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Hardrive,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Subhumans,
Khruangbin,
Chris & Cosey,
Severed Heads,
Metal Thangz,
Joy Division,
Fugazi,
the Fania All-Stars,
DJ Sneak,
The Buckinghams,
Lightning Bolt,
Crime,
Kas Product,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Harmonia,
Public Image Ltd.,
New York Dolls,
Ohio Players,
Sex Pistols,
Dennis Brown,
Jimmy McGriff,
MDC,
Jeff Lynne,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Scratch Acid,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Cal Tjader,
Faraquet,
The Mojo Men,
The Standells,
Scientists,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The Toasters,
the Human League,
Gregory Isaacs,
Laurel Aitken,
Skriet,
Tom Boy,
UT,
Franke,
D'Angelo,
Arab on Radar,
the Association,
48th St. Collective,
Lungfish,
The Techniques,
Half Japanese,
Index,
June Days,
Rites of Spring, Rites of Spring, Rites of Spring, Rites of Spring.
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.