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 Chad and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1964 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Yellowson to the techno kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Barrington Levy. All the underground hits.
All Radiopuhelimet tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Birthday Party 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Scott Walker + Sunn O))) record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Marshall Jefferson,
Fad Gadget,
Panda Bear,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Cure,
Terry Callier,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
FM Einheit,
Toni Rubio,
The Zeros,
Joe Smooth,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Laurel Aitken,
Roxette,
Neil Young,
Ice-T,
Country Teasers,
The Invisible,
Black Sheep,
Henry Cow,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Avey Tare,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Joensuu 1685,
JFA,
The Fugs,
Harmonia,
Intrusion,
Magma,
Bush Tetras,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Ohio Players,
Arab on Radar,
Von Mondo,
Blossom Toes,
Mr. Review,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Electric Prunes,
Mo-Dettes,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
D'Angelo,
the Bar-Kays,
The Slits,
The Red Krayola,
Bill Near,
Arthur Verocai,
Massinfluence,
The Blues Magoos,
The J.B.'s,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Barrington Levy,
Saccharine Trust,
Rosa Yemen,
Pantaleimon,
Maurizio,
Camouflage,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Traffic Nightmare,
Brothers Johnson,
China Crisis,
The Misunderstood,
Alice Coltrane, Alice Coltrane, Alice Coltrane, Alice Coltrane.
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.