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 Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1961 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 rhodes 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 Joey Negro 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 Pet Shop Boys. All the underground hits.
All Tom Boy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Louis and Bebe Barron record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Neu! record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Black Sheep,
The Blackbyrds,
Unrelated Segments,
Robert Görl,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Khruangbin,
Marine Girls,
The New Christs,
Tres Demented,
Sound Behaviour,
Matthew Bourne,
The Birthday Party,
Qualms,
Scan 7,
Joe Smooth,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Wake,
The Walker Brothers,
Harmonia,
Aloha Tigers,
Todd Terry,
Scott Walker,
Organ,
Sex Pistols,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Young Marble Giants,
Dennis Brown,
Wings,
The Remains,
Lakeside,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Jacob Miller,
Sly & The Family Stone,
the Swans,
Magazine,
Easy Going,
The Dirtbombs,
The Cramps,
Sun Ra,
Freddie Wadling,
Brothers Johnson,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Sound,
Smog,
Suburban Knight,
Das Ding,
Bob Dylan,
the Human League,
Girls At Our Best!,
Hashim,
In Retrospect,
Bronski Beat,
UT,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Underground Resistance,
Joyce Sims,
Joensuu 1685,
Gichy Dan,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Alton Ellis, Alton Ellis, Alton Ellis, Alton Ellis.
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.