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 St Lucia and from Portland.
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 1961 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the güiro 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 Malaria! to the techno 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 Animal Collective. All the underground hits.
All Country Joe & The Fish tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Flipper 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Fat Boys record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Normal,
The Trojans,
Kaleidoscope,
Davy DMX,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Dave Clark Five,
Camouflage,
Mantronix,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Flash Fearless,
Schoolly D,
Howard Jones,
The Happenings,
Underground Resistance,
Rekid,
In Retrospect,
Moebius,
Sugar Minott,
Marvin Gaye,
Groovy Waters,
Fela Kuti,
Robert Görl,
Scan 7,
Lou Christie,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Quantec,
Goldenarms,
Flamin' Groovies,
Grandmaster Flash,
Sixth Finger,
the Soft Cell,
Half Japanese,
Arcadia,
Main Source,
Tomorrow,
Toni Rubio,
Jesper Dahlback,
Fugazi,
Khruangbin,
The Raincoats,
Dual Sessions,
Gang Gang Dance,
Black Bananas,
The Standells,
Rapeman,
Bobby Sherman,
Vainqueur,
Piero Umiliani,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
This Heat,
Ronnie Foster,
Fluxion,
The Gun Club,
Audionom,
Skarface,
DJ Style,
Oneida,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Fire Engines,
Organ, Organ, Organ, Organ.
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.