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 Netherlands and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Sun City Girls to the techno kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 World's Most. All the underground hits.
All Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Negative Approach record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 snare and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cluster record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scratch Acid,
Quadrant,
U.S. Maple,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Bauhaus,
Eli Mardock,
Minor Threat,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
EPMD,
Silicon Teens,
The Last Poets,
Fear,
B.T. Express,
Khruangbin,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Cheater Slicks,
Technova,
Yazoo,
The Offenders,
Masters at Work,
Laurel Aitken,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Robert Hood,
Brick,
Man Parrish,
Deakin,
10cc,
The Moleskins,
The Happenings,
The Slits,
Negative Approach,
Hot Snakes,
Alice Coltrane,
The Real Kids,
James White and The Blacks,
Nico,
The Fugs,
Neu!,
Bob Dylan,
Black Bananas,
The Young Rascals,
Lalo Schifrin,
Boz Scaggs,
Yellowson,
The Tremeloes,
Ossler,
The New Christs,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Young Marble Giants,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Modern Lovers,
The Index,
Jeru the Damaja,
Bill Wells,
Motorama,
Absolute Body Control,
The J.B.'s,
Livin' Joy,
Skaos,
Tubeway Army,
The Divine Comedy,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.