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 Malaysia and from Seoul.
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 1960 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 1976 at the first Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
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 Quantec to the disco 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 Lou Christie. All the underground hits.
All David Axelrod tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every MDC 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jacob Miller record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Arcadia,
Eddi Front,
Jeru the Damaja,
In Retrospect,
Faraquet,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Lungfish,
Thompson Twins,
Don Cherry,
the Sonics,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Rhythm & Sound,
Girls At Our Best!,
Gang Gang Dance,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Half Japanese,
Bobby Womack,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Eric Dolphy,
Bobby Byrd,
The Birthday Party,
The Cure,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Heaven 17,
The Victims,
John Holt,
Echospace,
These Immortal Souls,
The Monks,
U.S. Maple,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Faust,
Sound Behaviour,
Crooked Eye,
Derrick May,
Barclay James Harvest,
Audionom,
F. McDonald,
8 Eyed Spy,
The Stooges,
Fad Gadget,
Idris Muhammad,
Pagans,
Bill Near,
Man Eating Sloth,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Anthony Braxton,
The Busters,
Tres Demented,
Sugar Minott,
Wolf Eyes,
Peter and Kerry,
Flipper,
Country Teasers,
Glenn Branca,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Names,
Rufus Thomas,
The Smoke,
Essential Logic,
Q and Not U,
Laurel Aitken, Laurel Aitken, Laurel Aitken, Laurel Aitken.
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.