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 Eritrea and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1965 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Index to the grime 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 London Community Gospel Choir. All the underground hits.
All Scrapy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Flipper record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Essential Logic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Swans,
The Fortunes,
Shuggie Otis,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Rotary Connection,
Bill Wells,
June Days,
Jandek,
Joey Negro,
Bauhaus,
Motorama,
Sonic Youth,
The Electric Prunes,
The Tremeloes,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Harmonia,
The Standells,
Charles Mingus,
Parry Music,
Basic Channel,
Desert Stars,
Fad Gadget,
Moss Icon,
Hoover,
The Leaves,
Arthur Verocai,
Minny Pops,
The Sonics,
Q and Not U,
Graham Central Station,
Isaac Hayes,
The Knickerbockers,
Fatback Band,
Gang Starr,
Marine Girls,
Ossler,
The Moleskins,
The Move,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Nas,
Inner City,
Oblivians,
LL Cool J,
Aaron Thompson,
The Happenings,
Los Fastidios,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The Modern Lovers,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Youth Brigade,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Camberwell Now,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Eden Ahbez,
Camouflage,
The Black Dice,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Dorothy Ashby,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo, Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo, Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo, Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo.
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.