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 Belarus and from Mumbai.
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 1967 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Soft Cell to the crunk 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 Aaron Thompson. All the underground hits.
All The Happenings tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every F. McDonald 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Clear Light record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Brand Nubian,
Rod Modell,
Little Man,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Cowsills,
The Raincoats,
Rufus Thomas,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Sonic Youth,
Blancmange,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Absolute Body Control,
Bill Near,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Kurtis Blow,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Boredoms,
Godley & Creme,
Patti Smith,
Ralphi Rosario,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Joy Division,
Prince Buster,
Outsiders,
Scan 7,
New York Dolls,
Minnie Riperton,
Rotary Connection,
Bootsy Collins,
The Cure,
The Moody Blues,
Minny Pops,
Negative Approach,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Hashim,
The Sonics,
Matthew Halsall,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Cameo,
Lower 48,
Gang Gang Dance,
Siglo XX,
Second Layer,
Public Image Ltd.,
Talk Talk,
Main Source,
Skarface,
The Selecter,
Scott Walker,
Reagan Youth,
Amon Düül II,
Rakim,
The Walker Brothers,
Cluster,
The United States of America,
Gregory Isaacs,
Quando Quango,
Schoolly D, Schoolly D, Schoolly D, Schoolly D.
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.