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 Austria and from Bologna.
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 1964 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the clarinet 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 Dual Sessions to the punk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Bizarre Inc.. All the underground hits.
All Juan Atkins tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 sitar and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pierre Henry record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Quadrant,
Donny Hathaway,
Camberwell Now,
James White and The Blacks,
Sixth Finger,
Kenny Larkin,
Arthur Verocai,
Warsaw,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
David McCallum,
Minnie Riperton,
KRS-One,
La Düsseldorf,
E-Dancer,
Darondo,
Crispy Ambulance,
Mad Mike,
Rod Modell,
AZ,
The Wake,
The Moleskins,
Eric Copeland,
Tommy Roe,
PIL,
The American Breed,
Harmonia,
Delta 5,
The Birthday Party,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Visage,
Mo-Dettes,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Gang Green,
Negative Approach,
Derrick May,
Scan 7,
The Doobie Brothers,
Procol Harum,
Joey Negro,
Tropical Tobacco,
Toni Rubio,
Ituana,
L. Decosne,
Duran Duran,
Mary Jane Girls,
Cymande,
Dennis Brown,
Bill Wells,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Cameo,
Wasted Youth,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Bill Near,
Aaron Thompson,
Peter and Kerry,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Laurel Aitken,
F. McDonald,
Nico,
T.S.O.L.,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
New Order,
Intrusion,
Deakin, Deakin, Deakin, Deakin.
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.