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 Taiwan and from Cairo.
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 1960 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Sun City Girls to the funk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Section 25. All the underground hits.
All Make Up tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dual Sessions record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pagans record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Boredoms,
The Golliwogs,
Aural Exciters,
The Black Dice,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
the Association,
Big Daddy Kane,
Morten Harket,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Monochrome Set,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Country Teasers,
Joey Negro,
The Cramps,
Tomorrow,
The American Breed,
Brick,
Erykah Badu,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Wally Richardson,
Camberwell Now,
Rites of Spring,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Television Personalities,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Flipper,
Make Up,
Agent Orange,
Amon Düül,
Skriet,
Eric B and Rakim,
Sonic Youth,
Nirvana,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
JFA,
Kevin Saunderson,
Subhumans,
The Last Poets,
Tres Demented,
The Alarm Clocks,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Mr. Review,
Steve Hackett,
Gang Gang Dance,
Dawn Penn,
Lungfish,
Arcadia,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Surgeon,
Henry Cow,
Shoche,
Trumans Water,
Alton Ellis,
The Sound,
Pantytec,
Reuben Wilson,
The Red Krayola,
The Five Americans,
Cameo,
cv313,
Barry Ungar,
Amazonics, Amazonics, Amazonics, Amazonics.
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.