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 Colombia and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1960 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 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 The Music Machine to the dance kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 E-Dancer. All the underground hits.
All Stockholm Monsters tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Heavy D & The Boyz 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ludus record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Archie Shepp,
Au Pairs,
Warsaw,
The Evens,
Blossom Toes,
Blake Baxter,
The Smoke,
The Happenings,
Clear Light,
Robert Hood,
the Bar-Kays,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Kool Moe Dee,
Maleditus Sound,
Brass Construction,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Graham Central Station,
The Toasters,
10cc,
Scientists,
Toni Rubio,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Scratch Acid,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Jawbox,
Gabor Szabo,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
The Litter,
X-101,
Cal Tjader,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Eddi Front,
Malaria!,
Derrick Morgan,
OOIOO,
Matthew Halsall,
The Walker Brothers,
Bauhaus,
the Germs,
Sister Nancy,
Derrick May,
Flash Fearless,
Bob Dylan,
Minor Threat,
Harmonia,
Agitation Free,
CMW,
Cecil Taylor,
The Offenders,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Marcia Griffiths,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Los Fastidios,
Sun Ra,
Inner City,
the Swans,
Model 500,
Eve St. Jones,
Second Layer, Second Layer, Second Layer, Second Layer.
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.