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 Estonia and from Milan.
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 1963 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 sitar 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 The Fall to the dance 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 Oneida. All the underground hits.
All The Names tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every New York Dolls 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 an organ and a harpsichord 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 clarinet and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scion,
Basic Channel,
Country Teasers,
Zapp,
Nick Fraelich,
Brothers Johnson,
Josef K,
Jesper Dahlback,
Babytalk,
Lucky Dragons,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Matthew Halsall,
Grauzone,
Barrington Levy,
Eurythmics,
The Shadows of Knight,
Throbbing Gristle,
Ronan,
Toni Rubio,
Symarip,
Black Moon,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Wake,
Terry Callier,
The Gladiators,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Skriet,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Toasters,
The Mummies,
Slick Rick,
The Seeds,
Jeff Mills,
Chris Corsano,
Dawn Penn,
Chrome,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
E-Dancer,
Glenn Branca,
Albert Ayler,
Suburban Knight,
Carl Craig,
Agent Orange,
Dead Boys,
The J.B.'s,
Fugazi,
Alton Ellis,
Essential Logic,
Electric Prunes,
Barbara Tucker,
Lee Hazlewood,
Max Romeo,
Sex Pistols,
The Human League,
Michelle Simonal,
Archie Shepp,
Hardrive,
Scrapy,
Soulsonic Force,
Roxy Music,
Robert Görl,
Alice Coltrane,
The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor.
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.