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 Jamaica and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 John Lydon to the rap 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 Lalann. All the underground hits.
All Warren Ellis tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Albert Ayler 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Wake record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eyeless In Gaza,
The Techniques,
Youth Brigade,
Thompson Twins,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Stetsasonic,
Gong,
Gabor Szabo,
The Red Krayola,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Mary Jane Girls,
Jeru the Damaja,
These Immortal Souls,
The Grass Roots,
Chris & Cosey,
Godley & Creme,
The Associates,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Qualms,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Trojans,
Schoolly D,
the Swans,
LL Cool J,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Andrew Hill,
Spandau Ballet,
Audionom,
CMW,
The Music Machine,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Moby Grape,
L. Decosne,
The Fall,
The Sonics,
Q and Not U,
Ronnie Foster,
Sun Ra,
Jesper Dahlback,
Charles Mingus,
The Real Kids,
Section 25,
The Zeros,
Lou Reed,
Darondo,
The American Breed,
Pere Ubu,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Deepchord,
The Modern Lovers,
Scan 7,
The Index,
Intrusion,
The Skatalites,
Juan Atkins,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Gladiators,
Michelle Simonal,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Yellowson, Yellowson, Yellowson, Yellowson.
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.