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 Switzerland and from Winnipeg.
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 1960 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 A Certain Ratio to the rap kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Aural Exciters. All the underground hits.
All Quadrant tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Peter & Gordon 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Electric Prunes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Anakelly,
Y Pants,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Wake,
The Shadows of Knight,
MDC,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Blancmange,
Oblivians,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Dawn Penn,
The Real Kids,
Hashim,
the Sonics,
Lakeside,
Maurizio,
Ken Boothe,
The Mummies,
Sun Ra,
Pantytec,
Black Pus,
Joensuu 1685,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Sight & Sound,
The Martian,
The J.B.'s,
The Monochrome Set,
Newcleus,
Lower 48,
Bootsy Collins,
Crash Course in Science,
Black Flag,
Iggy Pop,
Thompson Twins,
The Skatalites,
Depeche Mode,
Barbara Tucker,
Animal Collective,
Tim Buckley,
New Order,
10cc,
Monolake,
Boz Scaggs,
Bauhaus,
The Grass Roots,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Sugar Minott,
Derrick May,
Surgeon,
Robert Görl,
Icehouse,
Graham Central Station,
Lou Reed,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Trojans,
Con Funk Shun,
Royal Trux,
cv313,
Sam Rivers,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.