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 Lithuania and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1962 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 güiro 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 Royal Trux to the crunk 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 Ash Ra Tempel. All the underground hits.
All Talk Talk tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Organ 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bad Manners record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ronan,
Intrusion,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Jeff Mills,
UT,
Robert Görl,
Chris & Cosey,
Dennis Brown,
Morten Harket,
Cluster,
K-Klass,
JFA,
Reuben Wilson,
Johnny Clarke,
Soul II Soul,
Funkadelic,
The Music Machine,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Deakin,
James White and The Blacks,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Gun Club,
Michelle Simonal,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Beau Brummels,
Liliput,
Brass Construction,
Magazine,
Janne Schatter,
The Monks,
Erasure,
Sun Ra,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Selecter,
Graham Central Station,
Johnny Osbourne,
Khruangbin,
Shoche,
Wire,
David McCallum,
Charles Mingus,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Colin Newman,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Frankie Knuckles,
Warren Ellis,
John Coltrane,
Cheater Slicks,
The Martian,
Underground Resistance,
New Age Steppers,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The Busters,
X-102,
Ten City,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
KRS-One,
Sound Behaviour,
Easy Going,
Matthew Bourne, Matthew Bourne, Matthew Bourne, Matthew Bourne.
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.