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 Peru and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the theremin 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 Terror Squad Feat. Camron to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds. All the underground hits.
All Sun Ra tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jimmy McGriff record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ossler record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Tears for Fears,
The Music Machine,
Isaac Hayes,
The Gun Club,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Max Romeo,
D'Angelo,
Soul II Soul,
Gabor Szabo,
Brass Construction,
Rotary Connection,
Anthony Braxton,
Pole,
DJ Style,
Joy Division,
New Age Steppers,
Girls At Our Best!,
Silicon Teens,
Bauhaus,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Marine Girls,
Black Pus,
One Last Wish,
Warren Ellis,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Warsaw,
the Normal,
Khruangbin,
The Martian,
Don Cherry,
Joe Smooth,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Alton Ellis,
Sonny Sharrock,
Jawbox,
The Standells,
Jeru the Damaja,
The Invisible,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Tubeway Army,
Urselle,
Royal Trux,
Tomorrow,
Barrington Levy,
K-Klass,
Fela Kuti,
Television,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Ten City,
Kenny Larkin,
Bluetip,
The Busters,
The Mojo Men,
Aloha Tigers,
The Divine Comedy,
Boogie Down Productions,
Pharoah Sanders,
Pylon, Pylon, Pylon, Pylon.
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.