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 Sri Lanka and from Glasgow.
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 1967 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 snare 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 Average White Band to the crunk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Roxy Music. All the underground hits.
All Bootsy Collins tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Oppenheimer Analysis record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Japan,
Mandrill,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
the Slits,
Carl Craig,
Masters at Work,
Silicon Teens,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Barrington Levy,
JFA,
The Seeds,
The Divine Comedy,
the Association,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Grey Daturas,
Kerri Chandler,
Godley & Creme,
Ponytail,
Camouflage,
Crispy Ambulance,
Bobby Sherman,
The Dave Clark Five,
Derrick Morgan,
Pantytec,
DJ Sneak,
FM Einheit,
Sam Rivers,
The Human League,
Peter & Gordon,
The Buckinghams,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Q and Not U,
Lower 48,
Absolute Body Control,
Sun Ra,
Pet Shop Boys,
Essential Logic,
The Raincoats,
Thompson Twins,
The Dirtbombs,
Joey Negro,
Tomorrow,
Prince Buster,
Accadde A,
The Music Machine,
Brand Nubian,
Dual Sessions,
Barclay James Harvest,
Connie Case,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Lightning Bolt,
Symarip,
Roy Ayers,
Kurtis Blow,
Byron Stingily,
Mary Jane Girls,
Fluxion,
Livin' Joy,
Sparks,
Fad Gadget,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Stereo Dub,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch, Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch, Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch, Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch.
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.