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 Thailand and from Houston.
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 1966 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Derrick Morgan to the jazz 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 Tom Boy. All the underground hits.
All Ice-T tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sun Ra record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Matthew Bourne record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scan 7,
Max Romeo,
Lindisfarne,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Pop Group,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Fuzztones,
Lightning Bolt,
Letta Mbulu,
Kaleidoscope,
Bad Manners,
Shoche,
The Divine Comedy,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Yazoo,
New York Dolls,
The Golliwogs,
Spoonie Gee,
The Dead C,
Suicide,
Television,
The Kinks,
Echospace,
Aswad,
Flipper,
Cluster,
Laurel Aitken,
Newcleus,
Negative Approach,
Brand Nubian,
Drexciya,
The Fall,
the Normal,
Joensuu 1685,
The Toasters,
Isaac Hayes,
The Misunderstood,
Black Sheep,
U.S. Maple,
Leonard Cohen,
The Happenings,
Terrestrial Tones,
Accadde A,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Moss Icon,
Sex Pistols,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Ultimate Spinach,
Quadrant,
Television Personalities,
Pierre Henry,
Swell Maps,
Graham Central Station,
Rufus Thomas,
Neil Young,
Ice-T,
10cc,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
CMW,
Von Mondo,
June of 44,
KRS-One, KRS-One, KRS-One, KRS-One.
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.