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 Japan and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1961 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 spring reverb 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 Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud to the techno kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 kango's stein massive. All the underground hits.
All Royal Trux tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Detroit Cobras record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 chamberlin and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Grey Daturas record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Amon Düül,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Brand Nubian,
Anakelly,
Sonny Sharrock,
Bob Dylan,
Grey Daturas,
Flamin' Groovies,
Donny Hathaway,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Crash Course in Science,
Eli Mardock,
Prince Buster,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Newcleus,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Swans,
E-Dancer,
Franke,
June of 44,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Harry Pussy,
New Order,
The Birthday Party,
Ludus,
ABC,
Vladislav Delay,
Average White Band,
Babytalk,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Mummies,
Yellowson,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Pierre Henry,
Metal Thangz,
Avey Tare,
The Fire Engines,
Trumans Water,
The J.B.'s,
The Fugs,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Smog,
The Busters,
F. McDonald,
Sällskapet,
The Moody Blues,
Yusef Lateef,
Funky Four + One,
Theoretical Girls,
Y Pants,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Pet Shop Boys,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Gang of Four,
Cluster,
Wire,
Quando Quango, Quando Quango, Quando Quango, Quando Quango.
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.