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 Turkey and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 Shanghai and Tokyo.
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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 punk 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 Organ. All the underground hits.
All The Divine Comedy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Audionom 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Skaos record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Radiohead,
David McCallum,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Mission of Burma,
One Last Wish,
Bob Dylan,
Cheater Slicks,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Ultra Naté,
Con Funk Shun,
Matthew Halsall,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Velvet Underground,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
kango's stein massive,
Supertramp,
Maurizio,
The Human League,
a-ha,
Icehouse,
Nas,
Patti Smith,
cv313,
Idris Muhammad,
The Blues Magoos,
KRS-One,
Camouflage,
Suicide,
Lindisfarne,
John Lydon,
Faraquet,
Maleditus Sound,
The Monks,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Ohio Players,
The Seeds,
Kas Product,
Ken Boothe,
The Vogues,
John Holt,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Warren Ellis,
Marcia Griffiths,
Lou Christie,
Pantytec,
Stetsasonic,
Harmonia,
MC5,
Sexual Harrassment,
The Mojo Men,
Sandy B,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
the Normal,
The Cramps,
Can,
Throbbing Gristle,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Desert Stars,
Minny Pops,
Pantaleimon,
Organ,
Ponytail, Ponytail, Ponytail, Ponytail.
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.