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 Cyprus and from Columbus.
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 1966 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the organ 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 The Martian to the grime kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Outsiders. All the underground hits.
All Leonard Cohen tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lalo Schifrin record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Slackers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Michelle Simonal,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Whodini,
Big Daddy Kane,
The Tremeloes,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Robert Hood,
Pantaleimon,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Funky Four + One,
The Standells,
Sight & Sound,
Quadrant,
The Fuzztones,
Japan,
H. Thieme,
The Slackers,
The American Breed,
The Vogues,
Idris Muhammad,
Altered Images,
Barrington Levy,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Arab on Radar,
The Music Machine,
The Modern Lovers,
Slick Rick,
The Birthday Party,
Bill Wells,
Magazine,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Freddie Wadling,
Joensuu 1685,
Archie Shepp,
Grey Daturas,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Rites of Spring,
The Doors,
Eric B and Rakim,
Ponytail,
Gastr Del Sol,
Dead Boys,
Nils Olav,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Smiths,
MC5,
Quando Quango,
Intrusion,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Bronski Beat,
Soft Machine,
Godley & Creme,
This Heat,
B.T. Express,
Lebanon Hanover,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Skatalites,
The Associates,
Infiniti,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Black Moon, Black Moon, Black Moon, Black Moon.
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.