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 Poland and from Stockholm.
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 1967 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Halifax.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Delon & Dalcan to the funk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Audionom. All the underground hits.
All Flash Fearless tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scott Walker record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sound Behaviour record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Vainqueur,
Skarface,
Sonny Sharrock,
Jeff Mills,
Black Pus,
CMW,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
June Days,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Gregory Isaacs,
Ten City,
The Walker Brothers,
Monolake,
Dawn Penn,
Patti Smith,
Matthew Bourne,
Sun City Girls,
The Motions,
Ultra Naté,
Technova,
Subhumans,
The Shadows of Knight,
Carl Craig,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
JFA,
Stereo Dub,
F. McDonald,
Grey Daturas,
Cecil Taylor,
Erykah Badu,
Gerry Rafferty,
Donny Hathaway,
The Detroit Cobras,
Yellowson,
Sugar Minott,
Wire,
Qualms,
Niagra,
the Soft Cell,
MDC,
Oblivians,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Loose Ends,
Main Source,
Quadrant,
Jacques Brel,
Infiniti,
The Fugs,
The Slits,
The Sisters of Mercy,
the Normal,
Icehouse,
the Germs,
The Fuzztones,
Graham Central Station,
Easy Going,
Ice-T,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Invisible,
The New Christs, The New Christs, The New Christs, The New Christs.
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.