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 Peru and from Delhi.
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 1964 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax 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 harpsichord 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 Pole to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Lalann. All the underground hits.
All Nirvana tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Sonics record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cybotron record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pere Ubu,
Pierre Henry,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Audionom,
Scion,
the Swans,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Junior Murvin,
Dave Gahan,
The Invisible,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Laurel Aitken,
David Axelrod,
Ronan,
Lakeside,
Prince Buster,
Easy Going,
Flamin' Groovies,
Thee Headcoats,
Sonic Youth,
Carl Craig,
Television,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Lower 48,
Lalo Schifrin,
Clear Light,
Roxy Music,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Harpers Bizarre,
Parry Music,
OOIOO,
Marcia Griffiths,
Motorama,
The Pretty Things,
Mad Mike,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Maleditus Sound,
FM Einheit,
Make Up,
Gichy Dan,
Quantec,
Massinfluence,
Simply Red,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Susan Cadogan,
Marine Girls,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Michelle Simonal,
The Slackers,
The Misunderstood,
Erasure,
Graham Central Station,
The Toasters,
The Dave Clark Five,
Marmalade,
Black Flag,
Bronski Beat,
Rapeman,
The Remains,
Barry Ungar,
Barclay James Harvest, Barclay James Harvest, Barclay James Harvest, Barclay James Harvest.
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.