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 Canada and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 oboe 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 Lalann to the techno 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 Cybotron. All the underground hits.
All The Leaves tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Whodini record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Marshall Jefferson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Davy DMX,
Adolescents,
The Zeros,
Gichy Dan,
Surgeon,
A Certain Ratio,
X-102,
Y Pants,
Bluetip,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
John Cale,
Niagra,
Junior Murvin,
Model 500,
China Crisis,
Anthony Braxton,
Matthew Bourne,
The Velvet Underground,
Masters at Work,
Barry Ungar,
Bobby Womack,
Easy Going,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Ludus,
James White and The Blacks,
Section 25,
Gil Scott Heron,
James Chance & The Contortions,
F. McDonald,
Brass Construction,
John Coltrane,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Piero Umiliani,
Camouflage,
The Shadows of Knight,
Vladislav Delay,
Derrick Morgan,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Pussy Galore,
Sixth Finger,
Erykah Badu,
New Age Steppers,
Boredoms,
Black Pus,
Bill Wells,
Nirvana,
Inner City,
Cal Tjader,
Ultimate Spinach,
Prince Buster,
Sam Rivers,
Scratch Acid,
Bronski Beat,
Jimmy McGriff,
Gabor Szabo,
Sly & The Family Stone,
a-ha,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Amon Düül II,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Ultravox,
The Fire Engines,
Terry Callier,
Bang On A Can, Bang On A Can, Bang On A Can, Bang On A Can.
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.