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 Lebanon and from Shanghai.
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 1962 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the clarinet 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 Big Daddy Kane to the jazz 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 The Wake. All the underground hits.
All Pantytec tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Boogie Down Productions record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Move record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Suicide,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
New Age Steppers,
The Barracudas,
T.S.O.L.,
Sun Ra,
Von Mondo,
Lou Christie,
Robert Hood,
Joe Smooth,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Bronski Beat,
Crash Course in Science,
Animal Collective,
Crooked Eye,
The Evens,
Soft Machine,
Neu!,
Gastr Del Sol,
Girls At Our Best!,
Pagans,
JFA,
Black Moon,
Soulsonic Force,
Half Japanese,
Eric Copeland,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Black Dice,
June of 44,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Buckinghams,
Underground Resistance,
Nirvana,
Lightning Bolt,
Lakeside,
Carl Craig,
The Misunderstood,
Yusef Lateef,
Neil Young,
Infiniti,
Shuggie Otis,
Josef K,
Metal Thangz,
Joe Finger,
Piero Umiliani,
10cc,
The Leaves,
Scan 7,
Pole,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Khruangbin,
Moss Icon,
the Slits,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Moody Blues,
Lungfish,
Delon & Dalcan,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Moebius,
Flipper, Flipper, Flipper, Flipper.
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.