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 Samoa and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 1975 at the first Throbbing Gristle practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Smog to the grime kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Gun Club. All the underground hits.
All Jeff Mills tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Reuben Wilson record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s 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 Bobby Sherman record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Judy Mowatt,
Hasil Adkins,
One Last Wish,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Wasted Youth,
The Offenders,
Motorama,
Boz Scaggs,
Oblivians,
Outsiders,
Connie Case,
Barrington Levy,
Marvin Gaye,
Los Fastidios,
Glambeats Corp.,
Lou Reed,
A Certain Ratio,
The Evens,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Eddi Front,
Minny Pops,
Kenny Larkin,
Lindisfarne,
Banda Bassotti,
Sparks,
The J.B.'s,
U.S. Maple,
The Beau Brummels,
Suburban Knight,
The Motions,
Leonard Cohen,
Jeru the Damaja,
Ronnie Foster,
Bill Near,
Spoonie Gee,
The Smiths,
Smog,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Byron Stingily,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Organ,
Pylon,
Delta 5,
Japan,
Kas Product,
Freddie Wadling,
Cal Tjader,
Roxette,
Erasure,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Mo-Dettes,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Robert Hood,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Vladislav Delay,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Crooked Eye,
Shuggie Otis,
Can,
Ossler,
Rakim,
Public Image Ltd.,
It's A Beautiful Day, It's A Beautiful Day, It's A Beautiful Day, It's A Beautiful Day.
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.