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 Seychelles and from Tokyo.
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 1963 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 theremin 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 Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 CMW. All the underground hits.
All Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every ABBA 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and an oboe 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 güiro and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Underground Resistance,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Zero Boys,
Mr. Review,
Skarface,
Dorothy Ashby,
Ultravox,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Lou Reed,
Rhythm & Sound,
Erykah Badu,
Wolf Eyes,
Alton Ellis,
Arcadia,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Patti Smith,
Interpol,
R.M.O.,
Jacques Brel,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
L. Decosne,
Harpers Bizarre,
Funkadelic,
Thompson Twins,
Hasil Adkins,
China Crisis,
Derrick Morgan,
Sex Pistols,
Bush Tetras,
Mad Mike,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Smiths,
X-Ray Spex,
The Gun Club,
Echospace,
Skriet,
The Black Dice,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Brick,
World's Most,
Joey Negro,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Roxette,
Pulsallama,
Scan 7,
Popol Vuh,
Junior Murvin,
Marvin Gaye,
Maleditus Sound,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Birthday Party,
Swell Maps,
Eli Mardock,
The Five Americans,
Unwound,
Dawn Penn,
Khruangbin,
Joensuu 1685,
Vaughan Mason & Crew, Vaughan Mason & Crew, Vaughan Mason & Crew, Vaughan Mason & Crew.
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.