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 Bahamas and from Tokyo.
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 1965 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Amazonics to the crunk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Cluster. All the underground hits.
All Jandek tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jerry's Kids record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sun Ra Arkestra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dennis Brown,
Theoretical Girls,
Chrome,
X-102,
The Cowsills,
Amon Düül II,
Visage,
Tears for Fears,
The Fire Engines,
Buzzcocks,
Jerry's Kids,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Techniques,
Moebius,
Cameo,
The Music Machine,
Little Man,
The Selecter,
The Associates,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Malaria!,
Derrick May,
The Modern Lovers,
Sparks,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The Fugs,
Sex Pistols,
A Certain Ratio,
Letta Mbulu,
Isaac Hayes,
The Pop Group,
Fluxion,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Negative Approach,
The Durutti Column,
Adolescents,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Bill Near,
Robert Görl,
Barrington Levy,
Bush Tetras,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Interpol,
The Shadows of Knight,
Oblivians,
Gang Green,
Q and Not U,
Second Layer,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Television,
Camouflage,
The Cramps,
Monks,
The Index,
Zero Boys,
Half Japanese,
Urselle,
Rosa Yemen,
Archie Shepp,
Vladislav Delay, Vladislav Delay, Vladislav Delay, Vladislav Delay.
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.