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 South Sudan and from Seoul.
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 1962 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the snare 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 Masters at Work to the jazz kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Lalann. All the underground hits.
All X-102 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Electric Prunes 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Subhumans record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dennis Brown,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Hot Snakes,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Misunderstood,
Nico,
Trumans Water,
The Fugs,
Tommy Roe,
Morten Harket,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Eric Copeland,
The Gladiators,
The Sound,
Mary Jane Girls,
La Düsseldorf,
Andrew Hill,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Pantytec,
Moebius,
Charles Mingus,
Joensuu 1685,
Gang Gang Dance,
T. Rex,
Bizarre Inc.,
Fad Gadget,
FM Einheit,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
OOIOO,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Section 25,
CMW,
The Cramps,
Wire,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
the Normal,
Brick,
Stetsasonic,
Technova,
Cameo,
Barbara Tucker,
Soul Sonic Force,
Eden Ahbez,
Pere Ubu,
Animal Collective,
Ohio Players,
Joey Negro,
John Holt,
Lee Hazlewood,
Q65,
Ice-T,
Stockholm Monsters,
Swell Maps,
Matthew Bourne,
Peter and Kerry,
Gregory Isaacs,
Marcia Griffiths,
Visage,
Soft Cell,
Camouflage, Camouflage, Camouflage, Camouflage.
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.