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 Slovakia and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1968 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Shanghai.
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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Marshall Jefferson to the punk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Dennis Brown. All the underground hits.
All Danielle Patucci tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Easy Going record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cecil Taylor record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Lower 48,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Marshall Jefferson,
Hoover,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Depeche Mode,
Gang Green,
Mr. Review,
Public Image Ltd.,
Monolake,
The Monochrome Set,
The Techniques,
Camberwell Now,
Aswad,
Albert Ayler,
John Lydon,
The Doobie Brothers,
Henry Cow,
The Toasters,
Faust,
Bob Dylan,
Thompson Twins,
Jeff Mills,
Groovy Waters,
Hot Snakes,
Scott Walker,
Godley & Creme,
Camouflage,
The Misunderstood,
Zero Boys,
Sonic Youth,
UT,
Can,
The Detroit Cobras,
Jeff Lynne,
Massinfluence,
Tears for Fears,
Maleditus Sound,
Q and Not U,
Peter and Kerry,
The Walker Brothers,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
X-101,
Reagan Youth,
Cybotron,
Masters at Work,
Idris Muhammad,
Bluetip,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Unwound,
Stereo Dub,
Ossler,
Maurizio,
Sun City Girls,
The Kinks,
EPMD,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Crash Course in Science,
Joensuu 1685, Joensuu 1685, Joensuu 1685, Joensuu 1685.
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.