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 Kuwait and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in 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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the oboe 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 Altered Images to the dance kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Jacques Brel. All the underground hits.
All Aswad tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sonic Youth record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 clarinet and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Can record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
T. Rex,
Soul II Soul,
the Association,
Hashim,
The Monks,
Darondo,
Average White Band,
Maleditus Sound,
Throbbing Gristle,
Boogie Down Productions,
JFA,
Susan Cadogan,
Spoonie Gee,
Roxette,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Music Machine,
The Skatalites,
Symarip,
Aaron Thompson,
Liliput,
Prince Buster,
Deakin,
Dave Gahan,
Andrew Hill,
Sparks,
John Lydon,
L. Decosne,
Newcleus,
Ken Boothe,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Names,
The Beau Brummels,
A Certain Ratio,
Alison Limerick,
The Dave Clark Five,
Television,
Rakim,
Agent Orange,
Alton Ellis,
Pet Shop Boys,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Bootsy Collins,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Franke,
The Sonics,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Chris & Cosey,
Hot Snakes,
Siglo XX,
The Real Kids,
The Move,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Nas,
Bronski Beat,
Agitation Free,
Yusef Lateef,
Sugar Minott,
The Motions,
Vainqueur,
Funkadelic,
Aural Exciters, Aural Exciters, Aural Exciters, Aural Exciters.
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.