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 the UAE and from Copenhagen.
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 1968 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
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 Icehouse to the rap kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Juan Atkins. All the underground hits.
All Ten City tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Yusef Lateef 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kaleidoscope record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
David McCallum,
Y Pants,
Adolescents,
Archie Shepp,
T.S.O.L.,
The Blues Magoos,
Radio Birdman,
JFA,
Leonard Cohen,
Chris Corsano,
Blancmange,
Yusef Lateef,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Derrick May,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Rekid,
Average White Band,
La Düsseldorf,
the Normal,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Blackbyrds,
Amon Düül II,
Lakeside,
Lou Reed,
Cluster,
Livin' Joy,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Angels of Light,
Fear,
Flamin' Groovies,
Silicon Teens,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Radiopuhelimet,
Donny Hathaway,
Ultravox,
The Divine Comedy,
Yazoo,
The Pop Group,
The Monochrome Set,
Country Teasers,
Crooked Eye,
Stiv Bators,
Bauhaus,
The Misunderstood,
Mary Jane Girls,
Tim Buckley,
Trumans Water,
Robert Wyatt,
Joe Finger,
AZ,
Iggy Pop,
Boz Scaggs,
Boredoms,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Sixth Finger,
Magazine,
The Young Rascals,
The Gories,
Sparks,
One Last Wish,
Sam Rivers,
R.M.O.,
Drexciya,
B.T. Express, B.T. Express, B.T. Express, B.T. Express.
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.