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 Belize and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1960 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Marshall Jefferson to the techno kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Eli Mardock. All the underground hits.
All The Chocolate Watch Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ludus 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Aswad record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
a-ha,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Martian,
Siglo XX,
Crispy Ambulance,
Make Up,
The Sonics,
Ultimate Spinach,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Beau Brummels,
Eli Mardock,
Eden Ahbez,
Hoover,
Janne Schatter,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Junior Murvin,
Barbara Tucker,
Todd Rundgren,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Knickerbockers,
Mad Mike,
Aural Exciters,
Rites of Spring,
Jawbox,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Peter & Gordon,
The Grass Roots,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Fort Wilson Riot,
ABBA,
Nils Olav,
X-101,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Marvin Gaye,
Amon Düül II,
Drive Like Jehu,
Grey Daturas,
Gong,
Gil Scott Heron,
Sex Pistols,
Roy Ayers,
New York Dolls,
Television Personalities,
John Foxx,
Moss Icon,
Delta 5,
Procol Harum,
Cluster,
Bad Manners,
Technova,
Wire,
Gerry Rafferty,
Soul II Soul,
Japan,
Barrington Levy,
Mantronix,
Warsaw,
Bill Near,
the Fania All-Stars, the Fania All-Stars, the Fania All-Stars, the Fania All-Stars.
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.