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 Dominica and from Lagos.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 marimba 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 Ituana to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 B.T. Express. All the underground hits.
All Von Mondo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Soft Cell record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Amazonics record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Brass Construction,
Roxy Music,
Crooked Eye,
The Standells,
Youth Brigade,
Radiohead,
Oneida,
Ice-T,
Silicon Teens,
Yazoo,
Hot Snakes,
Mr. Review,
Cybotron,
Anthony Braxton,
Gang Starr,
Lalo Schifrin,
Aural Exciters,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
10cc,
The Blackbyrds,
Black Sheep,
Tommy Roe,
ABBA,
The Stooges,
The Electric Prunes,
Oblivians,
June Days,
Public Image Ltd.,
Michelle Simonal,
The Zeros,
Underground Resistance,
Patti Smith,
The Star Department,
Grauzone,
Todd Terry,
Chris & Cosey,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Young Marble Giants,
Magma,
Electric Prunes,
Nas,
Ronnie Foster,
Gregory Isaacs,
Massinfluence,
The Shadows of Knight,
Peter & Gordon,
Lou Christie,
Japan,
The J.B.'s,
Warsaw,
The Wake,
B.T. Express,
Boogie Down Productions,
Joyce Sims,
The Blues Magoos,
Gang of Four,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes, Justin Hinds & The Dominoes, Justin Hinds & The Dominoes, Justin Hinds & The Dominoes.
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.