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 Belize and from Philadelphia.
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 1968 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Paris.
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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Donald Byrd to the electroclash kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Clear Light. All the underground hits.
All Lonnie Liston Smith tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Hashim 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Cowsills record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
June Days,
Harmonia,
Simply Red,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Ponytail,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Juan Atkins,
Althea and Donna,
Barbara Tucker,
The Associates,
Dual Sessions,
E-Dancer,
FM Einheit,
John Foxx,
Fad Gadget,
Slave,
Tomorrow,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Flipper,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Soft Machine,
The Count Five,
Rod Modell,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Chris & Cosey,
Black Pus,
The Monks,
The Monochrome Set,
the Human League,
The Stooges,
Outsiders,
Aural Exciters,
John Lydon,
Los Fastidios,
Lucky Dragons,
Sandy B,
Amon Düül,
The Velvet Underground,
Television,
Marcia Griffiths,
Junior Murvin,
Eric Copeland,
The J.B.'s,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Saccharine Trust,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Max Romeo,
Jerry's Kids,
James Chance & The Contortions,
the Germs,
The Victims,
Dark Day,
The Music Machine,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Sam Rivers,
Fear,
Aaron Thompson,
The Angels of Light,
Gang Green,
Roxette,
Fat Boys,
Stockholm Monsters,
Minnie Riperton,
The Evens,
Delon & Dalcan, Delon & Dalcan, Delon & Dalcan, Delon & Dalcan.
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.