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 Mozambique and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1969 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Taipei.
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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the organ 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 Sandy B to the disco 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 Public Enemy. All the underground hits.
All The Litter tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Delta 5 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 guitar and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Yusef Lateef record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Brothers Johnson,
Liliput,
Ornette Coleman,
The Durutti Column,
Nas,
Quantec,
Soft Machine,
Rosa Yemen,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
New Order,
Absolute Body Control,
The Blues Magoos,
the Human League,
Outsiders,
Roger Hodgson,
Barrington Levy,
Eden Ahbez,
Rekid,
Q65,
Black Bananas,
Sonic Youth,
Jesper Dahlback,
Bang On A Can,
Dawn Penn,
Ice-T,
Fad Gadget,
Matthew Halsall,
Barry Ungar,
Avey Tare,
Lakeside,
The Walker Brothers,
Bauhaus,
Agitation Free,
Icehouse,
The Toasters,
LL Cool J,
Lou Christie,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Joe Finger,
Au Pairs,
The Dave Clark Five,
Johnny Osbourne,
Stiv Bators,
Barbara Tucker,
Country Teasers,
The Doobie Brothers,
Ossler,
David Axelrod,
Aloha Tigers,
The Vogues,
Scan 7,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Velvet Underground,
Gang Green,
Boredoms,
Gichy Dan,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Swans,
Chrome,
The Barracudas,
Piero Umiliani,
La Düsseldorf, La Düsseldorf, La Düsseldorf, La Düsseldorf.
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.