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 St Lucia 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 1968 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 ABC 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 Blake Baxter. All the underground hits.
All Fluxion tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Max Romeo 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Monolake record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lower 48,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
EPMD,
Pantytec,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
New York Dolls,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Radio Birdman,
The Moleskins,
Pantaleimon,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Scrapy,
The Buckinghams,
Roxy Music,
Suicide,
Organ,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Cheater Slicks,
Soul Sonic Force,
Joy Division,
The Techniques,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
New Age Steppers,
The Flesh Eaters,
Delta 5,
Cameo,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Kas Product,
Crooked Eye,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Neil Young,
The Young Rascals,
Yaz,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Last Poets,
Black Moon,
48th St. Collective,
The Seeds,
Scott Walker,
Dennis Brown,
Jandek,
Accadde A,
Public Enemy,
This Heat,
Connie Case,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
B.T. Express,
The Standells,
Sällskapet,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Laurel Aitken,
The Trojans,
Basic Channel,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Outsiders,
These Immortal Souls,
Soft Machine,
Eric Dolphy,
The Blackbyrds, The Blackbyrds, The Blackbyrds, The Blackbyrds.
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.