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 Saudi Arabia and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 Stockholm and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 ABC to the crunk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Aaron Thompson. All the underground hits.
All the Normal tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kevin Saunderson 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Fuzztones record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sonny Sharrock,
John Coltrane,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Techniques,
Fad Gadget,
Bluetip,
Ten City,
The Blackbyrds,
ABBA,
Scrapy,
Nils Olav,
The Associates,
Audionom,
the Germs,
Funkadelic,
Dawn Penn,
Pole,
Derrick Morgan,
Fugazi,
Underground Resistance,
Con Funk Shun,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Television,
Wolf Eyes,
Pagans,
Man Eating Sloth,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Goldenarms,
Television Personalities,
Idris Muhammad,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
China Crisis,
Severed Heads,
Gang Green,
Gichy Dan,
Magma,
Lebanon Hanover,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Boogie Down Productions,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Bobby Sherman,
Amon Düül II,
The Five Americans,
Barrington Levy,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Alphaville,
Barry Ungar,
Judy Mowatt,
Popol Vuh,
Tomorrow,
Harpers Bizarre,
Fort Wilson Riot,
K-Klass,
The Cowsills,
Ornette Coleman,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Mighty Diamonds,
EPMD,
FM Einheit,
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You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
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You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.