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 Mozambique and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1968 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the 808 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 Bluetip to the grime 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 Clear Light. All the underground hits.
All Absolute Body Control tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Public Image Ltd. record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jacob Miller record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Vladislav Delay,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The Names,
The Index,
Section 25,
Niagra,
Davy DMX,
Deepchord,
Neu!,
Boogie Down Productions,
Dead Boys,
Eddi Front,
the Human League,
Delon & Dalcan,
Max Romeo,
Soft Machine,
Bill Wells,
The Walker Brothers,
Silicon Teens,
Swans,
The Gap Band,
Alton Ellis,
Barry Ungar,
Harpers Bizarre,
Depeche Mode,
Mars,
Lalo Schifrin,
La Düsseldorf,
Henry Cow,
This Heat,
The Zeros,
Pierre Henry,
Man Parrish,
PIL,
Jesper Dahlback,
Mandrill,
Tubeway Army,
Albert Ayler,
Second Layer,
Tears for Fears,
R.M.O.,
Qualms,
Amon Düül,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Magma,
Arab on Radar,
The Vogues,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Cowsills,
Massinfluence,
Whodini,
X-Ray Spex,
Moebius,
Mary Jane Girls,
Marcia Griffiths,
Agent Orange,
Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon.
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.