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 Philippines and from Glasgow.
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 1962 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Beijing.
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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks to the dance 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 Average White Band. All the underground hits.
All Subhumans tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Slave 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Tubeway Army record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Clear Light,
Soul II Soul,
Circle Jerks,
Technova,
Yaz,
Frankie Knuckles,
Quando Quango,
The Smiths,
Dead Boys,
Fad Gadget,
Freddie Wadling,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Crash Course in Science,
John Cale,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Joe Smooth,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Roy Ayers,
Traffic Nightmare,
Godley & Creme,
Cymande,
Animal Collective,
Parry Music,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Lebanon Hanover,
Graham Central Station,
The Selecter,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Angels of Light,
the Sonics,
Kerri Chandler,
Pole,
Kool Moe Dee,
Little Man,
Sixth Finger,
Gil Scott Heron,
Jesper Dahlback,
8 Eyed Spy,
Joyce Sims,
FM Einheit,
In Retrospect,
Massinfluence,
Barry Ungar,
Glenn Branca,
Erasure,
KRS-One,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Faraquet,
Average White Band,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Offenders,
Hasil Adkins,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Sällskapet,
Black Flag,
The Gladiators,
the Association,
kango's stein massive,
MC5,
Andrew Hill,
The Young Rascals, The Young Rascals, The Young Rascals, The Young Rascals.
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.