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 Slovakia and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1968 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Glasgow.
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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Harpers Bizarre to the disco kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Jeru the Damaja. All the underground hits.
All DNA tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every KRS-One record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Brick record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pulsallama,
New Order,
The Monks,
Echospace,
Urselle,
Harry Pussy,
Outsiders,
Amazonics,
Vainqueur,
Deakin,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Moebius,
Drive Like Jehu,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Gregory Isaacs,
Donny Hathaway,
Jimmy McGriff,
Dave Gahan,
Lakeside,
New Age Steppers,
The Gap Band,
Quantec,
Public Enemy,
Sam Rivers,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Radiohead,
Jerry's Kids,
Jacques Brel,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Lindisfarne,
E-Dancer,
Essential Logic,
Mars,
The Names,
The Leaves,
Shoche,
June of 44,
Henry Cow,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Sly & The Family Stone,
Laurel Aitken,
U.S. Maple,
Gil Scott Heron,
Harmonia,
John Foxx,
Organ,
X-102,
Minnie Riperton,
KRS-One,
Faust,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Invisible,
Isaac Hayes,
Kayak,
Absolute Body Control,
Oneida,
Buzzcocks,
Ronnie Foster,
John Holt,
Fugazi,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five.
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.