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 Lesotho and from Manila.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 The Stooges to the grime 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 Minutemen. All the underground hits.
All Rotary Connection tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Tropical Tobacco 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 '70s 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 Warsaw record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dennis Brown,
Kenny Larkin,
Curtis Mayfield,
OOIOO,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Names,
Icehouse,
MC5,
Stiv Bators,
Interpol,
David Axelrod,
Rakim,
Accadde A,
Young Marble Giants,
Alphaville,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Index,
Silicon Teens,
Arab on Radar,
Lakeside,
The Pop Group,
Toni Rubio,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Vladislav Delay,
John Foxx,
Black Flag,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
F. McDonald,
Skaos,
The Angels of Light,
Little Man,
DJ Style,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Section 25,
Bootsy Collins,
Rapeman,
Country Teasers,
Malaria!,
The American Breed,
The Dead C,
Lou Christie,
Ten City,
X-101,
The Motions,
Television,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
LL Cool J,
Warren Ellis,
Alton Ellis,
Whodini,
ABBA,
The Trojans,
Anakelly,
kango's stein massive,
Kas Product,
Ponytail,
Intrusion,
Swell Maps,
The Sonics,
U.S. Maple,
Joey Negro,
Gastr Del Sol,
Al Stewart, Al Stewart, Al Stewart, Al Stewart.
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.