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 Macedonia and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1969 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Jimmy McGriff to the disco 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 Moby Grape. All the underground hits.
All the Germs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every David McCallum record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lower 48 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Black Bananas,
Sight & Sound,
10cc,
Dead Boys,
Blancmange,
Marmalade,
OOIOO,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Kevin Saunderson,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Durutti Column,
Jesper Dahlback,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Don Cherry,
John Cale,
Bill Near,
Unrelated Segments,
Heaven 17,
The Wake,
Marvin Gaye,
Spoonie Gee,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Man Parrish,
Gong,
Man Eating Sloth,
Idris Muhammad,
Cybotron,
Delta 5,
Con Funk Shun,
CMW,
Sam Rivers,
Iggy Pop,
The Litter,
The Smoke,
Faraquet,
Rakim,
Circle Jerks,
Y Pants,
Yazoo,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
MDC,
Siglo XX,
The Smiths,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Misunderstood,
Blake Baxter,
Rekid,
Sister Nancy,
Laurel Aitken,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Malaria!,
D'Angelo,
Wire,
Lungfish,
Grauzone,
The Moleskins,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Hashim,
Eve St. Jones,
Judy Mowatt,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Jacob Miller,
This Heat,
Hasil Adkins, Hasil Adkins, Hasil Adkins, Hasil Adkins.
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.