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 Malta 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 1960 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 linndrum 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 Tom Boy to the grime 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 Von Mondo. All the underground hits.
All Skriet tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Amon Düül II record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Dave Clark Five record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Tom Boy,
Loose Ends,
Maleditus Sound,
Unwound,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Josef K,
Monolake,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Avey Tare,
Morten Harket,
Radiopuhelimet,
Spandau Ballet,
The Alarm Clocks,
The United States of America,
The Walker Brothers,
Gichy Dan,
Flamin' Groovies,
Los Fastidios,
Man Parrish,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Bobby Womack,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Adolescents,
Yusef Lateef,
Average White Band,
The Human League,
Kevin Saunderson,
Anthony Braxton,
La Düsseldorf,
10cc,
Chrome,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Gong,
Sun City Girls,
The Happenings,
Can,
Drexciya,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Minutemen,
Harry Pussy,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Ten City,
Eve St. Jones,
Prince Buster,
Dawn Penn,
R.M.O.,
Soft Machine,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Young Rascals,
Wire,
Swans,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Severed Heads,
Wings,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Five Americans,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Red Krayola,
The Electric Prunes,
The Move,
Crispian St. Peters, Crispian St. Peters, Crispian St. Peters, Crispian St. Peters.
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.