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 Comoros and from Spokane.
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 1966 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Soul II Soul to the dance kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Desert Stars. All the underground hits.
All Ponytail tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Man Parrish record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 sitar and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Livin' Joy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Archie Shepp,
DNA,
Lalo Schifrin,
Youth Brigade,
Oneida,
Flamin' Groovies,
Young Marble Giants,
The Fall,
Wings,
Blake Baxter,
Deepchord,
Tim Buckley,
The Vogues,
Depeche Mode,
Bush Tetras,
Aloha Tigers,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
UT,
Johnny Osbourne,
Lebanon Hanover,
T. Rex,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Faust,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Sight & Sound,
Animal Collective,
Con Funk Shun,
Reuben Wilson,
Joy Division,
Nick Fraelich,
Minor Threat,
Mo-Dettes,
Yazoo,
K-Klass,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Buckinghams,
the Human League,
Schoolly D,
Hasil Adkins,
David McCallum,
Harmonia,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Ultra Naté,
Eric Dolphy,
Boogie Down Productions,
Barry Ungar,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Simply Red,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Beau Brummels,
Ultravox,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Rod Modell,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Cramps,
The Index,
Ralphi Rosario,
Skarface,
Altered Images,
The Mighty Diamonds, The Mighty Diamonds, The Mighty Diamonds, The Mighty Diamonds.
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.