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 Qatar and from Lyon.
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 1968 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 guitar 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 JFA to the techno kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Joe Smooth. All the underground hits.
All Black Moon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Q65 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 an oboe and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Gladiators record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Radiopuhelimet,
Joyce Sims,
The Black Dice,
Ralphi Rosario,
Rhythm & Sound,
Gichy Dan,
Chrome,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Marcia Griffiths,
Au Pairs,
Erasure,
UT,
The Divine Comedy,
Gang of Four,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Theoretical Girls,
Bauhaus,
Boredoms,
New Age Steppers,
Fear,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Barracudas,
Japan,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Camberwell Now,
Gabor Szabo,
the Swans,
Half Japanese,
Reagan Youth,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
DJ Sneak,
Fatback Band,
Rites of Spring,
The Music Machine,
Soft Cell,
Goldenarms,
Pole,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Mantronix,
Monks,
Clear Light,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Make Up,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Fluxion,
The Count Five,
The Smoke,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Grandmaster Flash,
Boogie Down Productions,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Ossler,
Bob Dylan,
Sun Ra,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Camouflage,
Al Stewart,
Cluster,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago, Art Ensemble Of Chicago, Art Ensemble Of Chicago, Art Ensemble Of Chicago.
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.