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 Georgia and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1967 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Hardrive to the grime 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 Gerry Rafferty. All the underground hits.
All The Fortunes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jeff Mills record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Black Pus record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Drive Like Jehu,
the Bar-Kays,
Thompson Twins,
Lee Hazlewood,
Royal Trux,
Colin Newman,
Duran Duran,
Archie Shepp,
Terrestrial Tones,
Laurel Aitken,
Aural Exciters,
kango's stein massive,
the Soft Cell,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Suburban Knight,
Gregory Isaacs,
Stereo Dub,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Jandek,
Anakelly,
Crooked Eye,
In Retrospect,
Slave,
Animal Collective,
Sparks,
MC5,
Au Pairs,
Cheater Slicks,
Nico,
Eurythmics,
Saccharine Trust,
Cecil Taylor,
Prince Buster,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Red Krayola,
Frankie Knuckles,
Section 25,
Ronnie Foster,
The Buckinghams,
The Divine Comedy,
Skarface,
Black Moon,
Anthony Braxton,
Lindisfarne,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Marmalade,
Robert Görl,
H. Thieme,
Stetsasonic,
Nas,
Scratch Acid,
John Lydon,
Henry Cow,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Nils Olav,
Hot Snakes,
The Busters,
The Dead C,
Jeff Mills,
Joe Finger, Joe Finger, Joe Finger, Joe Finger.
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.