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 Monaco and from Accra.
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 1965 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 The Cowsills to the rock kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Skatalites. All the underground hits.
All Eurythmics tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pantaleimon 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Nation of Ulysses record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
New Age Steppers,
Ultravox,
Man Eating Sloth,
Brass Construction,
Barrington Levy,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
PIL,
Gong,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Crooked Eye,
Laurel Aitken,
Prince Buster,
Young Marble Giants,
Easy Going,
Intrusion,
Davy DMX,
K-Klass,
The Index,
Oneida,
Kaleidoscope,
Tom Boy,
Carl Craig,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Flash Fearless,
Los Fastidios,
R.M.O.,
Faust,
Jeff Mills,
Suicide,
ABC,
The Beau Brummels,
Malaria!,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Deepchord,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Liliput,
A Certain Ratio,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Silicon Teens,
Fear,
Cameo,
Barry Ungar,
Grandmaster Flash,
Dual Sessions,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Flesh Eaters,
Unwound,
Black Bananas,
Eddi Front,
Royal Trux,
X-102,
The Motions,
Excepter,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Kerrie Biddell,
B.T. Express,
Lindisfarne,
T.S.O.L.,
Altered Images,
Trumans Water,
cv313, cv313, cv313, cv313.
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.