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 Fiji and from Lille.
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 1963 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 synthesizer 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 Franke to the techno kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Fort Wilson Riot. All the underground hits.
All Sex Pistols tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Flipper record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 a 808 and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Robert Görl record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Residents,
Intrusion,
Theoretical Girls,
Symarip,
The Motions,
The Cowsills,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Circle Jerks,
Janne Schatter,
Babytalk,
Donny Hathaway,
Flash Fearless,
A Certain Ratio,
Rosa Yemen,
The American Breed,
Johnny Clarke,
Johnny Osbourne,
These Immortal Souls,
Glenn Branca,
Derrick Morgan,
cv313,
Lightning Bolt,
Rufus Thomas,
the Bar-Kays,
Wings,
The Sound,
Eric Dolphy,
Amon Düül II,
Liliput,
Ultravox,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Modern Lovers,
Max Romeo,
New Age Steppers,
Thee Headcoats,
Michelle Simonal,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Wake,
Suburban Knight,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Human League,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
June of 44,
Nico,
Funkadelic,
Josef K,
Nils Olav,
Organ,
Dead Boys,
Deakin,
Soul II Soul,
The Pop Group,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Deepchord,
Gregory Isaacs,
Dennis Brown,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Boogie Down Productions,
D'Angelo,
Funky Four + One,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Tom Boy, Tom Boy, Tom Boy, Tom Boy.
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.