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 Dominican Republic and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1968 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the marimba 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 Fugazi to the funk 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 Justin Hinds & The Dominoes. All the underground hits.
All Major Organ And The Adding Machine tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every New Age Steppers 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kool Moe Dee record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Chris & Cosey,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The Durutti Column,
The Velvet Underground,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Marmalade,
Tom Boy,
Negative Approach,
Black Bananas,
The Cure,
Toni Rubio,
Visage,
Cheater Slicks,
Lakeside,
The Electric Prunes,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Black Pus,
Minny Pops,
Letta Mbulu,
Fluxion,
Patti Smith,
Hashim,
Q and Not U,
The Zeros,
Anakelly,
Kevin Saunderson,
Khruangbin,
Eddi Front,
Suburban Knight,
Tubeway Army,
Matthew Bourne,
Bang On A Can,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Dave Clark Five,
Loose Ends,
Goldenarms,
Infiniti,
X-102,
Au Pairs,
Average White Band,
Bush Tetras,
Joe Smooth,
Sexual Harrassment,
Johnny Osbourne,
Gang Green,
The Sound,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Altered Images,
Mandrill,
The Invisible,
Dave Gahan,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Spoonie Gee,
Porter Ricks,
kango's stein massive,
Kayak,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Minutemen,
Whodini, Whodini, Whodini, Whodini.
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.