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 Ukraine and from Milan.
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 1966 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the snare 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 Section 25 to the funk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Neil Young. All the underground hits.
All Hashim tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every L. Decosne record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Cowsills record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Bad Manners,
Kas Product,
David McCallum,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Rotary Connection,
Shoche,
Connie Case,
Aaron Thompson,
Theoretical Girls,
Godley & Creme,
Cluster,
Ralphi Rosario,
Chrome,
Faraquet,
Max Romeo,
Wolf Eyes,
Kerri Chandler,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Litter,
Laurel Aitken,
Rapeman,
L. Decosne,
Sonic Youth,
The Saints,
Interpol,
Gang of Four,
Dennis Brown,
Lalo Schifrin,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Blake Baxter,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Technova,
Donald Byrd,
ABC,
Mantronix,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Nick Fraelich,
The Golliwogs,
New Age Steppers,
Colin Newman,
Ossler,
Jeff Lynne,
The Flesh Eaters,
Gichy Dan,
The Slackers,
Television,
Harry Pussy,
Todd Rundgren,
Motorama,
Dead Boys,
Scan 7,
the Swans,
OOIOO,
Altered Images,
Marc Almond,
Magma,
Thee Headcoats,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Main Source,
Television Personalities, Television Personalities, Television Personalities, Television Personalities.
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.