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 Italy and from Lagos.
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 1967 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the 808 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 Shuggie Otis to the rap 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 Erykah Badu. All the underground hits.
All Janne Schatter tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Essential Logic record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sun City Girls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Standells,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Crispy Ambulance,
Althea and Donna,
Roxy Music,
Sam Rivers,
Todd Terry,
Aaron Thompson,
Yazoo,
Black Bananas,
Derrick Morgan,
cv313,
Average White Band,
John Coltrane,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Gregory Isaacs,
Jerry's Kids,
Sandy B,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Yusef Lateef,
Wolf Eyes,
FM Einheit,
Saccharine Trust,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Metal Thangz,
Half Japanese,
Nas,
Liliput,
Pet Shop Boys,
Eddi Front,
Fear,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Eric Dolphy,
The Mummies,
UT,
Alton Ellis,
Lebanon Hanover,
Essential Logic,
Tim Buckley,
The Sound,
ABBA,
The Names,
Nico,
Public Enemy,
Barbara Tucker,
Anthony Braxton,
Susan Cadogan,
Todd Rundgren,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Visage,
Avey Tare,
Fatback Band,
Swans,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Trumans Water,
DJ Sneak,
the Germs,
Cluster,
DNA,
The Mojo Men,
Massinfluence, Massinfluence, Massinfluence, Massinfluence.
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.