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 the UAE and from Philadelphia.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 The Motions to the jazz 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 OOIOO. All the underground hits.
All The Sound tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every A Certain Ratio record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Marvin Gaye,
The Move,
Lebanon Hanover,
Fatback Band,
The Beau Brummels,
World's Most,
Gang of Four,
Kerri Chandler,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Skarface,
The Vogues,
Scientists,
Country Teasers,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Red Krayola,
Faust,
Yusef Lateef,
John Holt,
Deepchord,
Wally Richardson,
Kaleidoscope,
Visage,
Cheater Slicks,
Tubeway Army,
Mission of Burma,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Ronan,
Ituana,
Archie Shepp,
L. Decosne,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Avey Tare,
Jeff Lynne,
Oblivians,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Carl Craig,
Rotary Connection,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Barclay James Harvest,
Radiopuhelimet,
Model 500,
The Leaves,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
The Tremeloes,
Aaron Thompson,
Soft Machine,
The Dave Clark Five,
Sarah Menescal,
Hoover,
Pulsallama,
Eric Dolphy,
The Cowsills,
Ultimate Spinach,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Anthony Braxton,
Gerry Rafferty,
Stiv Bators,
Negative Approach,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Eddi Front,
Ludus,
Joey Negro, Joey Negro, Joey Negro, Joey Negro.
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.