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 Albania and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1961 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 chamberlin 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 Main Source to the punk 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 Scion. All the underground hits.
All Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Boogie Down Productions record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Chris & Cosey,
Skaos,
B.T. Express,
Schoolly D,
The Gories,
Dorothy Ashby,
the Normal,
The Skatalites,
Surgeon,
the Swans,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Ultimate Spinach,
Freddie Wadling,
Gerry Rafferty,
Pantaleimon,
Arab on Radar,
The Alarm Clocks,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Kool Moe Dee,
Supertramp,
Sarah Menescal,
Outsiders,
Jeff Lynne,
Sällskapet,
JFA,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Isaac Hayes,
Scott Walker,
Gang Starr,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Jeru the Damaja,
The Martian,
Lalann,
Kurtis Blow,
Easy Going,
Make Up,
F. McDonald,
Henry Cow,
The Associates,
kango's stein massive,
Clear Light,
Eddi Front,
Quando Quango,
Public Enemy,
Flipper,
Jimmy McGriff,
L. Decosne,
Desert Stars,
The Doobie Brothers,
Infiniti,
Rites of Spring,
Brick,
Royal Trux,
Connie Case,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The J.B.'s,
Nik Kershaw,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Hoover,
Cymande,
The Black Dice,
Section 25,
Johnny Clarke, Johnny Clarke, Johnny Clarke, Johnny Clarke.
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.