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 Israel and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Moebius 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 Carl Craig. All the underground hits.
All Derrick Morgan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Half Japanese record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sarah Menescal record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Patti Smith,
Fluxion,
The Slackers,
Essential Logic,
Groovy Waters,
Nas,
Bobby Sherman,
Harpers Bizarre,
Roxy Music,
a-ha,
Oblivians,
Index,
New Order,
Lalann,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Can,
The Monochrome Set,
The Gladiators,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Todd Terry,
The Music Machine,
Graham Central Station,
Angry Samoans,
Camberwell Now,
Jerry's Kids,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Shoche,
Johnny Osbourne,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Radiohead,
Cecil Taylor,
Reagan Youth,
Lebanon Hanover,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Blancmange,
Altered Images,
Glenn Branca,
Joe Smooth,
LL Cool J,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Birthday Party,
AZ,
Carl Craig,
John Cale,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Piero Umiliani,
Rapeman,
Saccharine Trust,
Deepchord,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Dual Sessions,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Dead C,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Das Ding,
The Doobie Brothers,
Massinfluence,
John Holt,
The United States of America,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Bauhaus,
Hoover,
Silicon Teens, Silicon Teens, Silicon Teens, Silicon Teens.
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.