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 Syria and from Lyon.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Robert Görl to the grime kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Monks. All the underground hits.
All Gang Gang Dance 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 funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Whodini record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ken Boothe,
Sight & Sound,
The Gap Band,
Public Enemy,
The Slackers,
Matthew Bourne,
Ludus,
KRS-One,
Ultravox,
Icehouse,
Easy Going,
Davy DMX,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Country Teasers,
Brass Construction,
Brand Nubian,
Desert Stars,
John Coltrane,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Second Layer,
Joey Negro,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Evens,
Smog,
Adolescents,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Human League,
Boogie Down Productions,
Wolf Eyes,
Tommy Roe,
Robert Wyatt,
Half Japanese,
Dark Day,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Yazoo,
Massinfluence,
The Stooges,
Model 500,
Leonard Cohen,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Mojo Men,
Deepchord,
Kurtis Blow,
The Techniques,
The Searchers,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Matthew Halsall,
the Human League,
The Alarm Clocks,
The Gun Club,
Funkadelic,
Quantec,
Symarip,
Grandmaster Flash,
Oneida,
E-Dancer,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Barclay James Harvest,
Rod Modell, Rod Modell, Rod Modell, Rod Modell.
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.