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 Venezuela and from Sao Paulo.
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 1960 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Slick Rick to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Blackbyrds. All the underground hits.
All The Modern Lovers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Intrusion 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 guitar and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Todd Terry record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Human League,
The Skatalites,
Peter and Kerry,
Derrick Morgan,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Kaleidoscope,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Los Fastidios,
The Young Rascals,
Freddie Wadling,
Neil Young,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Dave Gahan,
Adolescents,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Nik Kershaw,
Mary Jane Girls,
Rod Modell,
Iggy Pop,
the Soft Cell,
Essential Logic,
Crispy Ambulance,
Pantaleimon,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Techniques,
Joey Negro,
Crime,
Vainqueur,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Dark Day,
Jeff Lynne,
Ituana,
Loose Ends,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Sarah Menescal,
Monolake,
Stereo Dub,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Alton Ellis,
Faraquet,
Jandek,
Ultra Naté,
The Neon Judgement,
Animal Collective,
Mark Hollis,
These Immortal Souls,
The Sound,
Aaron Thompson,
Can,
Marcia Griffiths,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Mission of Burma,
The Leaves,
Barrington Levy,
Michelle Simonal,
Bobby Byrd,
Al Stewart,
Juan Atkins,
Wire, Wire, Wire, Wire.
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.