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 Sri Lanka and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1961 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Faust to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Nirvana. All the underground hits.
All Brand Nubian tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Five Americans 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camberwell Now record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Juan Atkins,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Sällskapet,
The Index,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Rekid,
Average White Band,
Bobby Sherman,
Dennis Brown,
Lee Hazlewood,
Fad Gadget,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Unwound,
The Misunderstood,
Anthony Braxton,
Lungfish,
Marine Girls,
Nik Kershaw,
Saccharine Trust,
Donny Hathaway,
Whodini,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Sun Ra,
Max Romeo,
Skriet,
Ten City,
Bill Wells,
Hashim,
The Angels of Light,
Neil Young,
The Buckinghams,
The Walker Brothers,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Blackbyrds,
Jerry's Kids,
The Gories,
Lalann,
Black Pus,
Brothers Johnson,
Swans,
Gerry Rafferty,
Spoonie Gee,
Alice Coltrane,
Lightning Bolt,
Roy Ayers,
Porter Ricks,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Moleskins,
Funkadelic,
Brand Nubian,
Section 25,
The Sound,
Mark Hollis,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Slave,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Litter,
Arthur Verocai,
Yusef Lateef, Yusef Lateef, Yusef Lateef, Yusef Lateef.
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.