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 Jamaica and from Mexico City.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 1975 at the first Throbbing Gristle practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the sitar 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 Trumans Water 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 The Fall. All the underground hits.
All Fort Wilson Riot tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Quadrant record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Faraquet record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Das Ding,
Brass Construction,
Babytalk,
Funkadelic,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Rhythm & Sound,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Audionom,
Gong,
World's Most,
Eve St. Jones,
Cameo,
Bronski Beat,
Drive Like Jehu,
Cybotron,
Spoonie Gee,
Soul II Soul,
Hoover,
Colin Newman,
Anthony Braxton,
Goldenarms,
Mandrill,
John Holt,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Intrusion,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Masters at Work,
Archie Shepp,
Skaos,
Cymande,
Easy Going,
Lee Hazlewood,
Faust,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Ultimate Spinach,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Country Teasers,
Janne Schatter,
Nick Fraelich,
Talk Talk,
Urselle,
Dave Gahan,
The Birthday Party,
The United States of America,
The Modern Lovers,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Lou Christie,
Idris Muhammad,
Simply Red,
The Gun Club,
Little Man,
Ituana,
Popol Vuh,
The Electric Prunes,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Happenings,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Cecil Taylor,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Lalo Schifrin,
Radiohead,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud, Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud, Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud, Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud.
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.