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 Colombia and from Tehran.
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 1967 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the 808 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 Big Daddy Kane to the rock kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Ludus. All the underground hits.
All Selector Dub Narcotic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nirvana record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Audionom record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Zero Boys,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Terrestrial Tones,
ABC,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Toasters,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Invisible,
The Gap Band,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Albert Ayler,
David McCallum,
Angry Samoans,
Idris Muhammad,
Essential Logic,
48th St. Collective,
Jacques Brel,
The Durutti Column,
Das Ding,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Man Eating Sloth,
Todd Rundgren,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Lungfish,
Sugar Minott,
The Pretty Things,
Audionom,
The Sound,
The Dirtbombs,
Sam Rivers,
Procol Harum,
Peter and Kerry,
Circle Jerks,
Dead Boys,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Erykah Badu,
Nils Olav,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Pantytec,
Ossler,
Harpers Bizarre,
X-Ray Spex,
MC5,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Aaron Thompson,
Organ,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Young Rascals,
Skriet,
UT,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
La Düsseldorf,
Harry Pussy,
Joe Smooth,
Gang Starr,
The Evens,
Black Sheep,
Second Layer, Second Layer, Second Layer, Second Layer.
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.