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 Canada and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 The Sound to the disco 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 Scientists. All the underground hits.
All Surgeon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jawbox record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 rhodes and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Make Up record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Cal Tjader,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Silicon Teens,
The Busters,
Archie Shepp,
Minnie Riperton,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Davy DMX,
Terry Callier,
X-101,
The Mojo Men,
The Misunderstood,
Mission of Burma,
X-102,
Mars,
Danielle Patucci,
Kenny Larkin,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
The Moody Blues,
Surgeon,
Outsiders,
Pet Shop Boys,
Bobby Womack,
Sex Pistols,
The Kinks,
James White and The Blacks,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
KRS-One,
Don Cherry,
The Pop Group,
Moss Icon,
Letta Mbulu,
Delta 5,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Sexual Harrassment,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Crash Course in Science,
Bootsy Collins,
Tropical Tobacco,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Echospace,
The Buckinghams,
Sister Nancy,
Icehouse,
Fatback Band,
E-Dancer,
Hardrive,
10cc,
Blancmange,
The Beau Brummels,
The Trojans,
The Count Five,
D'Angelo,
Newcleus,
World's Most,
Fear,
Godley & Creme,
Barrington Levy,
Anakelly,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.