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 Czech Republic and from Manchester.
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 1965 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 spring reverb 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 The Human League to the rap kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Deakin. All the underground hits.
All Robert Wyatt tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Gories record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Art Ensemble Of Chicago record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Unrelated Segments,
La Düsseldorf,
X-102,
Oblivians,
R.M.O.,
Audionom,
The Index,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Metal Thangz,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Doobie Brothers,
Pharoah Sanders,
Camberwell Now,
Blake Baxter,
Leonard Cohen,
Sexual Harrassment,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Roy Ayers,
Darondo,
Matthew Bourne,
The Golliwogs,
Kas Product,
the Fania All-Stars,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Todd Rundgren,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Suicide,
The Mojo Men,
Guru Guru,
Peter and Kerry,
The Sonics,
Maleditus Sound,
Yusef Lateef,
Soul II Soul,
Y Pants,
Mary Jane Girls,
Eli Mardock,
Charles Mingus,
Lyres,
Sex Pistols,
Massinfluence,
Faust,
Minutemen,
E-Dancer,
Eden Ahbez,
The Electric Prunes,
Model 500,
Index,
The J.B.'s,
The Dirtbombs,
Robert Hood,
Barclay James Harvest,
Pulsallama,
T.S.O.L.,
Alton Ellis,
Au Pairs,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Visage,
Big Daddy Kane,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Radiopuhelimet,
Hashim, Hashim, Hashim, Hashim.
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.