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 Tonga and from Seoul.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 marimba 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 Sonny Sharrock to the funk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Jesper Dahlbäck. All the underground hits.
All Donny Hathaway tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every John Cale record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 an organ and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter & Gordon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bill Wells,
Agitation Free,
Pere Ubu,
Dual Sessions,
Simply Red,
Bauhaus,
The Victims,
Cluster,
Lalo Schifrin,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Modern Lovers,
Public Enemy,
Marcia Griffiths,
H. Thieme,
Soft Cell,
Nik Kershaw,
Gerry Rafferty,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Colin Newman,
Stetsasonic,
Blossom Toes,
The Real Kids,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Detroit Cobras,
Gastr Del Sol,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Roy Ayers,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Joensuu 1685,
Anthony Braxton,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Sandy B,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Boredoms,
Marmalade,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Cybotron,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Reagan Youth,
Nas,
Nico,
Funky Four + One,
Soul Sonic Force,
Freddie Wadling,
Quadrant,
Warren Ellis,
Delta 5,
Metal Thangz,
Marc Almond,
Cheater Slicks,
Outsiders,
Duran Duran,
Sarah Menescal,
Moebius,
Barbara Tucker,
The Dead C,
Erykah Badu,
Robert Hood,
In Retrospect, In Retrospect, In Retrospect, In Retrospect.
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.