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 United Kingdom and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax 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 1976 at the first Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Amazonics to the disco kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 DJ Style. All the underground hits.
All Section 25 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ronan record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Davy DMX record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
David Axelrod,
Scrapy,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Roxette,
Rotary Connection,
Rhythm & Sound,
John Holt,
Cecil Taylor,
Laurel Aitken,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Golliwogs,
Lightning Bolt,
Banda Bassotti,
Girls At Our Best!,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Tommy Roe,
Joyce Sims,
Delta 5,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Dennis Brown,
Scan 7,
Terry Callier,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Martian,
The Doobie Brothers,
June Days,
David McCallum,
Chris & Cosey,
Masters at Work,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Kinks,
Nick Fraelich,
Jesper Dahlback,
Gang Starr,
Infiniti,
Skaos,
Massinfluence,
The Real Kids,
The Sound,
Country Teasers,
Funky Four + One,
Buzzcocks,
E-Dancer,
Rod Modell,
Qualms,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Groovy Waters,
The Pretty Things,
Lee Hazlewood,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Monochrome Set,
Metal Thangz,
Oneida,
Shoche,
The Electric Prunes,
Juan Atkins,
Anakelly,
The Victims,
10cc,
Dorothy Ashby, Dorothy Ashby, Dorothy Ashby, Dorothy Ashby.
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.