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 Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1966 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme to the disco kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 The Young Rascals. All the underground hits.
All The Dave Clark Five tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every DJ Style record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 synthesizer and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Accadde A,
Albert Ayler,
Adolescents,
Brick,
The Count Five,
Man Parrish,
The Grass Roots,
Q and Not U,
Anthony Braxton,
Leonard Cohen,
Rites of Spring,
Tomorrow,
Negative Approach,
Kevin Saunderson,
Inner City,
Interpol,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Whodini,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Stereo Dub,
Bobby Sherman,
Saccharine Trust,
Agent Orange,
The Fire Engines,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Dorothy Ashby,
Ronan,
The Monks,
Letta Mbulu,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Eve St. Jones,
Chrome,
Skaos,
The Five Americans,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Black Flag,
Prince Buster,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Bad Manners,
The Human League,
Pet Shop Boys,
Hardrive,
Peter & Gordon,
ABC,
Mr. Review,
Freddie Wadling,
These Immortal Souls,
Joe Finger,
Das Ding,
Derrick Morgan,
Gil Scott Heron,
Glenn Branca,
Hoover,
Visage,
Altered Images,
Mo-Dettes,
Rosa Yemen,
Cheater Slicks,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Black Dice,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes, Justin Hinds & The Dominoes, Justin Hinds & The Dominoes, Justin Hinds & The Dominoes.
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.