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 Fiji and from Johannesburg.
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 1964 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 güiro 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 Black Sheep to the techno 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 Connie Case. All the underground hits.
All Public Enemy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every PIL 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lower 48 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Girls At Our Best!,
Guru Guru,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Judy Mowatt,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Lower 48,
Mark Hollis,
Soul II Soul,
Barclay James Harvest,
Aaron Thompson,
Barbara Tucker,
Janne Schatter,
the Normal,
Tom Boy,
Second Layer,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Alice Coltrane,
The Golliwogs,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Aloha Tigers,
Bill Near,
Pussy Galore,
Joensuu 1685,
Eli Mardock,
Minny Pops,
The Birthday Party,
Deepchord,
The Cure,
Soul Sonic Force,
Procol Harum,
Blake Baxter,
Ronan,
Ultimate Spinach,
Nik Kershaw,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Drive Like Jehu,
Kevin Saunderson,
Kaleidoscope,
Curtis Mayfield,
Ken Boothe,
Panda Bear,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Black Flag,
The Offenders,
Donny Hathaway,
The Last Poets,
The Pop Group,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
the Fania All-Stars,
Scan 7,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Ultravox,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
LL Cool J,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Ludus,
Television,
Delon & Dalcan,
Lee Hazlewood,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Real Kids, The Real Kids, The Real Kids, The Real Kids.
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.