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 Montenegro and from Copenhagen.
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 1969 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 mellotron 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 EPMD to the crunk 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience. All the underground hits.
All Richard Hell and the Voidoids tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Saccharine Trust 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bang On A Can record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Godley & Creme,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Fugs,
The Martian,
Reuben Wilson,
DJ Style,
Babytalk,
The Wake,
Dennis Brown,
Gang Starr,
The Electric Prunes,
Fatback Band,
Circle Jerks,
8 Eyed Spy,
Sällskapet,
The Barracudas,
Donald Byrd,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
David Bowie,
Gang Gang Dance,
Moby Grape,
The Invisible,
Rakim,
David Axelrod,
Excepter,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
U.S. Maple,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Happenings,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Ohio Players,
Archie Shepp,
Ituana,
Funkadelic,
Radiohead,
Agent Orange,
Gang of Four,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Neon Judgement,
Ponytail,
Q and Not U,
Robert Görl,
Slick Rick,
The Blackbyrds,
The Gap Band,
Black Flag,
Yaz,
Maleditus Sound,
Ultra Naté,
The Smiths,
Gastr Del Sol,
Hoover,
Mary Jane Girls,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Ossler,
Skriet,
Pet Shop Boys,
Jacob Miller,
The Motions,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Skatalites,
One Last Wish,
Kevin Saunderson, Kevin Saunderson, Kevin Saunderson, Kevin Saunderson.
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.