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 Canada and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Maurizio to the grime 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 Mantronix. All the underground hits.
All The Litter tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Easy Going record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pantaleimon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joensuu 1685,
Donald Byrd,
the Swans,
The Black Dice,
The Pretty Things,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Popol Vuh,
Shoche,
Ultimate Spinach,
Junior Murvin,
Derrick Morgan,
Alice Coltrane,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Donny Hathaway,
Tommy Roe,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Wolf Eyes,
Marine Girls,
Youth Brigade,
MC5,
Sun City Girls,
Zapp,
The Busters,
Moby Grape,
Delta 5,
Agent Orange,
Nation of Ulysses,
Throbbing Gristle,
David Axelrod,
Josef K,
Isaac Hayes,
Max Romeo,
T. Rex,
The Mummies,
Zero Boys,
A Certain Ratio,
Unrelated Segments,
Tubeway Army,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Underground Resistance,
Soul II Soul,
the Soft Cell,
Judy Mowatt,
The Index,
Gichy Dan,
Barclay James Harvest,
Danielle Patucci,
Goldenarms,
The Blackbyrds,
a-ha,
The Skatalites,
In Retrospect,
Von Mondo,
Lou Reed,
T.S.O.L.,
Can,
Pagans,
Subhumans,
Charles Mingus,
Tropical Tobacco,
Bauhaus,
Audionom,
DJ Style,
Chris & Cosey, Chris & Cosey, Chris & Cosey, Chris & Cosey.
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.