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 Australia and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 Michael McDonald 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 Sparks to the jazz 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 Gichy Dan. All the underground hits.
All Eric Copeland tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Altered Images record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Skaos record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ossler,
Drexciya,
Talk Talk,
Ponytail,
Con Funk Shun,
Bootsy Collins,
Sight & Sound,
Flipper,
Curtis Mayfield,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Slackers,
Jandek,
Section 25,
Henry Cow,
the Human League,
Gil Scott Heron,
Silicon Teens,
The Divine Comedy,
June of 44,
Eyeless In Gaza,
The Last Poets,
Can,
Arthur Verocai,
New Order,
Gang Green,
Metal Thangz,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Joey Negro,
Goldenarms,
Dark Day,
The Five Americans,
The Gap Band,
Josef K,
Funky Four + One,
Q65,
Max Romeo,
Danielle Patucci,
Althea and Donna,
Sun Ra,
The Evens,
Roy Ayers,
Excepter,
The Toasters,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Adolescents,
Main Source,
Moebius,
The Searchers,
Lyres,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Slave,
U.S. Maple,
Jesper Dahlback,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Fela Kuti,
Trumans Water,
Young Marble Giants,
Grey Daturas,
Rapeman,
Electric Prunes,
Harry Pussy,
Aloha Tigers,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu, Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu, Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu, Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu.
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.