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 Nigeria and from Taipei.
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 1968 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 rap 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 Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud. All the underground hits.
All The Detroit Cobras tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Bar-Kays 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 linndrum and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Warren Ellis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Cowsills,
The Mummies,
Marcia Griffiths,
Iggy Pop,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Henry Cow,
Icehouse,
The Gories,
10cc,
Tubeway Army,
The Doors,
Echospace,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Cymande,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Names,
Max Romeo,
Shoche,
Derrick Morgan,
Agent Orange,
Symarip,
CMW,
Marvin Gaye,
Stetsasonic,
Smog,
Crash Course in Science,
Darondo,
Aaron Thompson,
Television Personalities,
Sandy B,
Pet Shop Boys,
Outsiders,
The Modern Lovers,
The Neon Judgement,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Mojo Men,
The Detroit Cobras,
Motorama,
Donny Hathaway,
The Invisible,
Curtis Mayfield,
Camouflage,
Supertramp,
Alison Limerick,
Warsaw,
Theoretical Girls,
Ice-T,
Deepchord,
Television,
the Bar-Kays,
Nils Olav,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Doobie Brothers,
Kool Moe Dee,
This Heat,
Infiniti,
Q65,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Parry Music, Parry Music, Parry Music, Parry Music.
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.