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 Andorra 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 1967 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 Robert Palmer 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 Funkadelic to the techno kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 The Men They Couldn't Hang. All the underground hits.
All Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Crispy Ambulance record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 clarinet and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kool Moe Dee record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Liliput,
Todd Terry,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Matthew Halsall,
Animal Collective,
This Heat,
Ossler,
The Gap Band,
Godley & Creme,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
the Sonics,
Technova,
48th St. Collective,
Easy Going,
Aaron Thompson,
JFA,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Mr. Review,
Urselle,
Throbbing Gristle,
Monks,
Depeche Mode,
The Motions,
Stereo Dub,
the Normal,
The Black Dice,
The Wake,
Rosa Yemen,
Tomorrow,
Jacques Brel,
Au Pairs,
Junior Murvin,
Donald Byrd,
Hardrive,
Jandek,
Japan,
The Move,
The Walker Brothers,
kango's stein massive,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Mission of Burma,
The Smoke,
the Swans,
Pylon,
John Foxx,
A Flock of Seagulls,
the Germs,
The Litter,
Byron Stingily,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Rekid,
Henry Cow,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Star Department,
Prince Buster,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Das Ding,
Index,
Pere Ubu,
Anakelly,
Mad Mike, Mad Mike, Mad Mike, Mad Mike.
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.