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 Moldova and from Tehran.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
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 Prince Buster to the funk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Basic Channel. All the underground hits.
All De La Soul & Jungle Brothers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 rhodes and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sad Lovers and Giants record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Walker Brothers,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Juan Atkins,
David Axelrod,
Reagan Youth,
Japan,
Roger Hodgson,
Royal Trux,
Bill Near,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Adolescents,
Q and Not U,
Masters at Work,
The Standells,
Sun Ra,
Byron Stingily,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Bush Tetras,
Tres Demented,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Fatback Band,
Grey Daturas,
Anakelly,
Michelle Simonal,
Television,
Parry Music,
the Association,
Andrew Hill,
Suicide,
David McCallum,
Stetsasonic,
Bad Manners,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
the Bar-Kays,
Harmonia,
Tubeway Army,
Soft Cell,
Rapeman,
Anthony Braxton,
Bang On A Can,
Black Sheep,
Y Pants,
Fugazi,
Soulsonic Force,
Khruangbin,
Bronski Beat,
Derrick Morgan,
Wire,
The Zeros,
Popol Vuh,
Babytalk,
Can,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Rod Modell,
Rosa Yemen,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Gregory Isaacs,
Silicon Teens, Silicon Teens, Silicon Teens, Silicon Teens.
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.