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 Monaco and from Paris.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Bobby Hutcherson to the techno kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Animal Collective. All the underground hits.
All AZ tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Arcadia 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 snare and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ash Ra Tempel record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Porter Ricks,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Sight & Sound,
Ken Boothe,
Joy Division,
Joensuu 1685,
Lightning Bolt,
The Tremeloes,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The Wake,
Boogie Down Productions,
Yellowson,
Crime,
Ossler,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Wolf Eyes,
Hasil Adkins,
The Martian,
Gabor Szabo,
Marcia Griffiths,
Traffic Nightmare,
Leonard Cohen,
The Misunderstood,
Rotary Connection,
China Crisis,
Henry Cow,
Stockholm Monsters,
the Slits,
The New Christs,
Gerry Rafferty,
Lungfish,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Mr. Review,
Unrelated Segments,
Joey Negro,
Mo-Dettes,
Ohio Players,
The Leaves,
The Toasters,
Eurythmics,
Scion,
Bobby Byrd,
Bad Manners,
X-102,
The Electric Prunes,
Young Marble Giants,
Schoolly D,
Index,
The Gun Club,
JFA,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
The Happenings,
Ituana,
Nils Olav,
The Five Americans,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Q and Not U,
Cal Tjader,
Steve Hackett,
Babytalk, Babytalk, Babytalk, Babytalk.
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.