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 Malawi and from Paris.
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 1961 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 Robert Palmer 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 Deadbeat to the grime 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 Ten City. All the underground hits.
All Ituana tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Amon Düül 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 a marimba and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gabor Szabo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Andrew Hill,
Fluxion,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Marmalade,
World's Most,
Chrome,
Kenny Larkin,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Flash Fearless,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Stereo Dub,
Rakim,
Warren Ellis,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Dave Clark Five,
Boredoms,
Scion,
Susan Cadogan,
Zero Boys,
PIL,
Todd Rundgren,
The Birthday Party,
Bronski Beat,
Q and Not U,
Dead Boys,
La Düsseldorf,
Glambeats Corp.,
8 Eyed Spy,
Animal Collective,
Isaac Hayes,
Section 25,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Nico,
Stetsasonic,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Wally Richardson,
Gang Green,
cv313,
James White and The Blacks,
Tom Boy,
The Pretty Things,
The Zeros,
Neu!,
The Gap Band,
Second Layer,
Talk Talk,
The Blackbyrds,
CMW,
Gang Gang Dance,
Hoover,
Danielle Patucci,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Vainqueur,
Nik Kershaw,
Rosa Yemen,
June of 44,
Joe Smooth,
Avey Tare,
Porter Ricks,
Rapeman,
Letta Mbulu, Letta Mbulu, Letta Mbulu, Letta Mbulu.
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.