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 Ireland and from Bremen.
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 1969 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Taipei.
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 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 Motorama to the grunge 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 Cybotron. All the underground hits.
All Colin Newman tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Schoolly D 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cabaret Voltaire record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Glambeats Corp.,
Roy Ayers,
Neil Young,
New Order,
Kerri Chandler,
Joensuu 1685,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Janne Schatter,
Ultra Naté,
Frankie Knuckles,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Sex Pistols,
Josef K,
David Axelrod,
The Dave Clark Five,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Real Kids,
The Slackers,
Soft Machine,
Mission of Burma,
Grey Daturas,
Clear Light,
Model 500,
The Raincoats,
The Martian,
Lebanon Hanover,
Cameo,
B.T. Express,
Derrick Morgan,
Idris Muhammad,
Underground Resistance,
the Sonics,
R.M.O.,
Agent Orange,
Khruangbin,
Sixth Finger,
Lalo Schifrin,
Cheater Slicks,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Index,
Urselle,
Colin Newman,
Deepchord,
The Smoke,
Nico,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Vladislav Delay,
Radiohead,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Bizarre Inc.,
DNA,
Duran Duran,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Ohio Players,
CMW,
Tim Buckley,
The Evens,
Desert Stars,
Funky Four + One,
Masters at Work,
Shuggie Otis,
Connie Case,
Arcadia, Arcadia, Arcadia, Arcadia.
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.