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 Croatia and from Copenhagen.
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 1964 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the guitar 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 Kas Product to the rock 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 Electric Prunes. All the underground hits.
All The Mummies tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lou Reed & Metallica record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ossler record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ituana,
The Happenings,
Animal Collective,
Ronan,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
MDC,
John Cale,
OOIOO,
Donny Hathaway,
Faraquet,
Toni Rubio,
Lindisfarne,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Todd Terry,
Ponytail,
Slave,
Jerry's Kids,
Zapp,
Moebius,
The Count Five,
Mark Hollis,
Kas Product,
Mars,
Connie Case,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Kool Moe Dee,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Quadrant,
Nils Olav,
Soulsonic Force,
K-Klass,
Excepter,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Rod Modell,
L. Decosne,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Funkadelic,
The Litter,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Livin' Joy,
Harmonia,
Harpers Bizarre,
Scan 7,
Eden Ahbez,
R.M.O.,
Glenn Branca,
Massinfluence,
Alison Limerick,
Malaria!,
Chris Corsano,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Mission of Burma,
Circle Jerks,
Rakim,
Althea and Donna,
Lungfish,
The Gap Band,
Radiopuhelimet,
Magazine,
Babytalk,
Bad Manners,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Sonny Sharrock,
London Community Gospel Choir, London Community Gospel Choir, London Community Gospel Choir, London Community Gospel Choir.
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.