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 Bangladesh and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 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 10cc to the crunk 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 Ludus. All the underground hits.
All Harmonia tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bobby Hutcherson record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Section 25 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Siglo XX,
JFA,
Marmalade,
The Leaves,
UT,
The Stooges,
Public Enemy,
Boredoms,
Theoretical Girls,
DJ Style,
The Real Kids,
Sarah Menescal,
Arcadia,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Minny Pops,
Popol Vuh,
Davy DMX,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Lalo Schifrin,
This Heat,
Blake Baxter,
David Axelrod,
The Young Rascals,
Television,
The Tremeloes,
Schoolly D,
Glambeats Corp.,
a-ha,
Bob Dylan,
Maleditus Sound,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Shoche,
Vainqueur,
John Coltrane,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Camouflage,
Quantec,
10cc,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Fatback Band,
Ten City,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Pulsallama,
Crash Course in Science,
Janne Schatter,
The Five Americans,
Newcleus,
Sexual Harrassment,
Sound Behaviour,
Ohio Players,
Second Layer,
Eurythmics,
Marshall Jefferson,
Nation of Ulysses,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Ultra Naté,
Gang of Four,
Young Marble Giants,
Silicon Teens,
Hardrive,
Kas Product,
Kevin Saunderson, Kevin Saunderson, Kevin Saunderson, Kevin Saunderson.
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.