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 Bhutan and from Johannesburg.
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 1962 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the 808 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 Robert Görl to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Gabor Szabo. All the underground hits.
All Bizarre Inc. tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pierre Henry record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 chamberlin and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Vaughan Mason & Crew record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Cameo,
Rotary Connection,
Cal Tjader,
The Dirtbombs,
Todd Terry,
Flamin' Groovies,
Archie Shepp,
Kayak,
Gastr Del Sol,
Fatback Band,
Aloha Tigers,
Barbara Tucker,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Peter & Gordon,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Johnny Clarke,
Crash Course in Science,
Cybotron,
CMW,
Sällskapet,
Eric Copeland,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Camouflage,
Pet Shop Boys,
Rapeman,
Chris & Cosey,
Gang of Four,
Subhumans,
Pantaleimon,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Japan,
Technova,
New Order,
Flash Fearless,
Simply Red,
Mark Hollis,
Fugazi,
Erasure,
The Divine Comedy,
Agent Orange,
La Düsseldorf,
Joy Division,
Bill Near,
Donny Hathaway,
The Searchers,
Lalann,
Kevin Saunderson,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
John Foxx,
Sun Ra,
OOIOO,
Faust,
Von Mondo,
The Toasters,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
the Germs,
The Buckinghams,
Harmonia,
Freddie Wadling,
Isaac Hayes,
The Associates,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Don Cherry, Don Cherry, Don Cherry, Don Cherry.
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.