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 Honduras and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1963 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Bad Manners to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 JFA. All the underground hits.
All JFA tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Harmonia 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Judy Mowatt record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Beasts of Bourbon,
The Skatalites,
Buzzcocks,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Khruangbin,
Tom Boy,
Bobby Byrd,
Thompson Twins,
In Retrospect,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Yusef Lateef,
The Fall,
ABBA,
Camouflage,
Godley & Creme,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Cybotron,
Zapp,
Index,
Scott Walker,
Bizarre Inc.,
Warren Ellis,
Main Source,
Depeche Mode,
Bronski Beat,
F. McDonald,
Glenn Branca,
The Young Rascals,
the Association,
Soulsonic Force,
Liliput,
The American Breed,
Maurizio,
Juan Atkins,
Heaven 17,
Groovy Waters,
The Durutti Column,
The Sonics,
Hasil Adkins,
The Dead C,
Mary Jane Girls,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Robert Hood,
Grauzone,
Joensuu 1685,
The Wake,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Circle Jerks,
Kerri Chandler,
Rakim,
The Busters,
Agent Orange,
The Last Poets,
Ohio Players,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Crime,
The Neon Judgement,
Neu!,
The Red Krayola,
The Kinks, The Kinks, The Kinks, The Kinks.
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.