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 Chile and from Tokyo.
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 1963 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Connie Case to the dance kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Arcadia. All the underground hits.
All Khruangbin tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pierre Henry record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Au Pairs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Faust,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Brand Nubian,
The Human League,
The Martian,
Suburban Knight,
R.M.O.,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Black Dice,
Nick Fraelich,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Todd Rundgren,
Adolescents,
Nation of Ulysses,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Detroit Cobras,
Eric B and Rakim,
Marvin Gaye,
Bush Tetras,
Nils Olav,
X-102,
Franke,
Unrelated Segments,
the Normal,
Cybotron,
The Slits,
Y Pants,
Maleditus Sound,
Lightning Bolt,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Deepchord,
In Retrospect,
Aswad,
Albert Ayler,
Magma,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Smoke,
Ronnie Foster,
New Age Steppers,
Popol Vuh,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Fortunes,
Flamin' Groovies,
Man Eating Sloth,
Kerrie Biddell,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
D'Angelo,
Trumans Water,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Moss Icon,
Freddie Wadling,
Boz Scaggs,
Half Japanese,
Amon Düül II,
Wings,
Bauhaus,
The American Breed,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Doobie Brothers,
Tom Boy,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel.
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.