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 Botswana and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1969 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the clarinet 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 Fad Gadget to the grime 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 Nas. All the underground hits.
All June Days tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Vogues 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Chocolate Watch Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sunsets and Hearts,
Lakeside,
Dave Gahan,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Sugar Minott,
The Grass Roots,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Cecil Taylor,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Searchers,
Q and Not U,
Erykah Badu,
Donny Hathaway,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Robert Wyatt,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Move,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Anakelly,
Eric Copeland,
Michelle Simonal,
Zero Boys,
Amon Düül II,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Beau Brummels,
Morten Harket,
Joy Division,
John Foxx,
Radio Birdman,
The Alarm Clocks,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Moleskins,
Metal Thangz,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Slackers,
The Pretty Things,
the Swans,
Hashim,
Reuben Wilson,
Traffic Nightmare,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Grauzone,
Section 25,
Intrusion,
Tommy Roe,
Ossler,
The Toasters,
Inner City,
Darondo,
Lalann,
Pantaleimon,
Wolf Eyes,
Whodini,
Bush Tetras,
The Fuzztones,
Visage,
Heaven 17,
The Last Poets,
The Fall,
Kerrie Biddell,
Sexual Harrassment,
Dual Sessions, Dual Sessions, Dual Sessions, Dual Sessions.
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.