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 Barbados and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 Holger Czukay 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 Negative Approach to the techno 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 The Blackbyrds. All the underground hits.
All Rod Modell tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nirvana record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 a marimba and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Spoonie Gee record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bronski Beat,
Letta Mbulu,
The Monochrome Set,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Joy Division,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Wolf Eyes,
Underground Resistance,
New York Dolls,
Henry Cow,
Nation of Ulysses,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Newcleus,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Sonics,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Fatback Band,
Half Japanese,
Severed Heads,
Bill Wells,
The Saints,
The Angels of Light,
Prince Buster,
Accadde A,
Soul Sonic Force,
Faust,
Liliput,
The Pop Group,
The Music Machine,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Gong,
ABC,
The Electric Prunes,
June of 44,
10cc,
Lalann,
Infiniti,
Saccharine Trust,
La Düsseldorf,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Associates,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Brand Nubian,
Urselle,
The Mojo Men,
cv313,
Marvin Gaye,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
The Barracudas,
Tommy Roe,
Anakelly,
Ossler,
Pole,
Terry Callier,
The Black Dice,
Pet Shop Boys,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Pretty Things,
Big Daddy Kane,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.