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 Kosovo and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1969 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Jandek to the dance kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Dorothy Ashby. All the underground hits.
All Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Smog record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bobbi Humphrey,
Tommy Roe,
David McCallum,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Marcia Griffiths,
Colin Newman,
Kaleidoscope,
Chris Corsano,
Wire,
the Normal,
Rod Modell,
Scan 7,
UT,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Crime,
The Martian,
X-102,
Bobby Byrd,
Ice-T,
Jeff Mills,
Chris & Cosey,
Soul Sonic Force,
Con Funk Shun,
LL Cool J,
Jesper Dahlback,
Audionom,
Wings,
The Fortunes,
Anakelly,
Cecil Taylor,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Motorama,
Steve Hackett,
Black Sheep,
The Beau Brummels,
Icehouse,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Invisible,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Intrusion,
Sun Ra,
Marc Almond,
David Axelrod,
The Busters,
Scientists,
Bill Wells,
Franke,
Traffic Nightmare,
Silicon Teens,
The Move,
Shuggie Otis,
The Gladiators,
Shoche,
La Düsseldorf,
Aaron Thompson,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Stetsasonic,
Minor Threat,
E-Dancer,
One Last Wish,
Tropical Tobacco,
Babytalk, Babytalk, Babytalk, Babytalk.
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.