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 Liberia and from Hong Kong.
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 1960 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Seoul.
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 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 Nile Rodgers 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 Fifty Foot Hose to the grunge kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Vaughan Mason & Crew. All the underground hits.
All Bang on a Can All-Stars tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Youth Brigade record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 clarinet and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a K-Klass record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Stetsasonic,
The Durutti Column,
Nirvana,
The New Christs,
The Dead C,
Q and Not U,
Ken Boothe,
London Community Gospel Choir,
The Victims,
The Mojo Men,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
48th St. Collective,
the Swans,
The Detroit Cobras,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Arab on Radar,
Fugazi,
Unwound,
Sällskapet,
John Foxx,
Darondo,
EPMD,
Simply Red,
Thompson Twins,
David McCallum,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Gories,
Junior Murvin,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Buzzcocks,
cv313,
Delta 5,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Animal Collective,
World's Most,
The Music Machine,
Youth Brigade,
Underground Resistance,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Cal Tjader,
Bobby Byrd,
Can,
Sun Ra,
Blossom Toes,
Ponytail,
Wally Richardson,
Matthew Halsall,
Skarface,
Michelle Simonal,
Dave Gahan,
Desert Stars,
Todd Terry,
Visage,
Aaron Thompson,
Robert Görl,
Kerrie Biddell,
Funkadelic,
The Selecter,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell.
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.