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 Armenia and from Jakarta.
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 1962 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Marcia Griffiths to the disco 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 Grandmaster Flash. All the underground hits.
All Fear tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Index 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ludus record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Ten City,
Accadde A,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Ossler,
Agitation Free,
One Last Wish,
Judy Mowatt,
Schoolly D,
Mars,
New Order,
Boredoms,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Five Americans,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Animal Collective,
Bootsy Collins,
L. Decosne,
Quando Quango,
Aloha Tigers,
Flash Fearless,
Outsiders,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
PIL,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Hashim,
Slave,
Reuben Wilson,
Infiniti,
FM Einheit,
DJ Sneak,
Brass Construction,
Smog,
The Blackbyrds,
Blake Baxter,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Standells,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Rakim,
the Fania All-Stars,
Suicide,
Quadrant,
UT,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Severed Heads,
AZ,
Niagra,
Howard Jones,
Thompson Twins,
Glenn Branca,
June Days,
Soft Cell,
Johnny Clarke,
The Gap Band,
Bobby Byrd,
Glambeats Corp.,
Rites of Spring,
The Moody Blues, The Moody Blues, The Moody Blues, The Moody Blues.
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.