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 Greece and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 organ 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 Dark Day to the rap kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Neil Young. All the underground hits.
All DJ Sneak tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Altered Images 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Derrick May record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Aaron Thompson,
Sixth Finger,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Aural Exciters,
Sound Behaviour,
The Index,
Chrome,
The New Christs,
Fluxion,
Television Personalities,
Skriet,
The Misunderstood,
The Offenders,
Symarip,
The Gap Band,
Jerry's Kids,
the Fania All-Stars,
Faust,
Pierre Henry,
The Kinks,
Neil Young,
Essential Logic,
Jeff Mills,
Todd Terry,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Scrapy,
Electric Prunes,
Slick Rick,
Brick,
Dave Gahan,
The Fuzztones,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Brothers Johnson,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Alphaville,
Lucky Dragons,
Glambeats Corp.,
Von Mondo,
Danielle Patucci,
Second Layer,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Heaven 17,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Brand Nubian,
Ludus,
Rites of Spring,
Ultra Naté,
The Mojo Men,
Jandek,
The Fall,
Jimmy McGriff,
Neu!,
Bootsy Collins,
Mission of Burma,
Organ,
The Searchers,
CMW,
Janne Schatter,
June Days,
Thompson Twins,
Harry Pussy,
Talk Talk, Talk Talk, Talk Talk, Talk Talk.
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.