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 Sierra Leone and from Philadelphia.
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 1966 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Hong Kong.
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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 The Fall to the jazz 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 Thompson Twins. All the underground hits.
All Sonic Youth tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sonic Youth record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a kango's stein massive record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Massinfluence,
The Tremeloes,
Crash Course in Science,
Flash Fearless,
The Doobie Brothers,
Amazonics,
Infiniti,
Quando Quango,
Pere Ubu,
Wasted Youth,
Masters at Work,
The Golliwogs,
Joyce Sims,
Roxy Music,
Eve St. Jones,
Popol Vuh,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Johnny Osbourne,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Moss Icon,
The Saints,
Sugar Minott,
Davy DMX,
The Offenders,
Ponytail,
Pierre Henry,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Smoke,
Metal Thangz,
Heaven 17,
The Count Five,
Lou Christie,
Suicide,
Agent Orange,
Minny Pops,
Bush Tetras,
Jeff Mills,
Funkadelic,
Flipper,
Easy Going,
Talk Talk,
Quadrant,
Groovy Waters,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Alice Coltrane,
David McCallum,
Althea and Donna,
Depeche Mode,
The Techniques,
Andrew Hill,
Lou Reed,
UT,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Jesper Dahlback,
Fad Gadget,
Fela Kuti,
The Monochrome Set,
Tubeway Army,
Scrapy,
Johnny Clarke,
10cc, 10cc, 10cc, 10cc.
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.