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 Iraq and from Manchester.
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 1968 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Sight & Sound to the crunk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Monolake. All the underground hits.
All The Index tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ponytail 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Tim Buckley record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Soulsonic Force,
Idris Muhammad,
Rosa Yemen,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Marine Girls,
Minor Threat,
Terrestrial Tones,
Make Up,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Wasted Youth,
Grandmaster Flash,
Tres Demented,
Mantronix,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Cluster,
Al Stewart,
F. McDonald,
Mark Hollis,
Urselle,
Scratch Acid,
Main Source,
The Count Five,
The Names,
Swell Maps,
Ten City,
Ice-T,
Marcia Griffiths,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Moleskins,
Silicon Teens,
Sight & Sound,
The Dirtbombs,
Bobby Sherman,
Hot Snakes,
Groovy Waters,
Archie Shepp,
Reuben Wilson,
the Bar-Kays,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Smoke,
Grey Daturas,
Desert Stars,
Loose Ends,
Boogie Down Productions,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Zapp,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Symarip,
Tubeway Army,
Television Personalities,
The Blues Magoos,
Vainqueur,
Brothers Johnson,
DJ Sneak,
Scott Walker,
Cameo,
Morten Harket,
Ronnie Foster,
Mars,
Frankie Knuckles,
Girls At Our Best!,
Jerry's Kids,
Barrington Levy,
Blake Baxter,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.