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 Suriname and from Salvador.
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 1968 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Skaos to the grime kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Juan Atkins. All the underground hits.
All Vainqueur tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Excepter record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 synthesizer and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Marine Girls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gong,
Tomorrow,
Nirvana,
Magma,
Make Up,
Franke,
Scrapy,
Shuggie Otis,
The Five Americans,
Lou Christie,
Trumans Water,
Warsaw,
The Slackers,
Scientists,
Dennis Brown,
Motorama,
Ituana,
Talk Talk,
The Fuzztones,
Smog,
Janne Schatter,
FM Einheit,
Babytalk,
Hot Snakes,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
The Neon Judgement,
Alison Limerick,
Jeff Lynne,
Echospace,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Groovy Waters,
Jimmy McGriff,
Symarip,
The Detroit Cobras,
JFA,
The Invisible,
Mo-Dettes,
the Normal,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Essential Logic,
the Sonics,
Crash Course in Science,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Jeff Mills,
Rekid,
DJ Style,
the Slits,
Traffic Nightmare,
Joy Division,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Pantaleimon,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Drive Like Jehu,
La Düsseldorf,
Faraquet,
Reuben Wilson,
Eric Dolphy,
Amon Düül II,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Erykah Badu,
The Barracudas, The Barracudas, The Barracudas, The Barracudas.
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.