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 Kuwait and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1967 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 organ 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 Rufus Thomas to the grunge 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 Pole. All the underground hits.
All Ludus tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ronnie Foster record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a One Last Wish record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Cabaret Voltaire,
Maleditus Sound,
Zero Boys,
L. Decosne,
Jeru the Damaja,
MC5,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Pierre Henry,
Bad Manners,
Essential Logic,
cv313,
The Evens,
Au Pairs,
The Walker Brothers,
Hashim,
Ornette Coleman,
Porter Ricks,
Mandrill,
Girls At Our Best!,
Roxy Music,
Jandek,
Arab on Radar,
David McCallum,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Gladiators,
Angry Samoans,
Parry Music,
Moby Grape,
Sight & Sound,
Q and Not U,
T.S.O.L.,
Glenn Branca,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Terrestrial Tones,
DJ Sneak,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Sällskapet,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Smiths,
Crispian St. Peters,
Minor Threat,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
a-ha,
Monolake,
Kevin Saunderson,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Minnie Riperton,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Eve St. Jones,
Heaven 17,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Jesper Dahlback,
Todd Terry,
FM Einheit,
The Shadows of Knight,
Patti Smith,
Electric Light Orchestra,
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You don't know what you really want.
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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.