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 Macedonia and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1969 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Jesus and Mary Chain to the dance kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Warren Ellis. All the underground hits.
All Rhythm & Sound tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jacob Miller 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Underground Resistance record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Monks,
John Cale,
Royal Trux,
The Trojans,
Neu!,
Isaac Hayes,
Cluster,
Yusef Lateef,
Sound Behaviour,
Bobby Sherman,
Unrelated Segments,
Reuben Wilson,
Minor Threat,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Lindisfarne,
Todd Terry,
Section 25,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Barbara Tucker,
Toni Rubio,
Pagans,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Bob Dylan,
Dark Day,
The Techniques,
Intrusion,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Eric Dolphy,
MC5,
The Red Krayola,
The Detroit Cobras,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
D'Angelo,
The Fuzztones,
Black Bananas,
Ralphi Rosario,
Scrapy,
Pere Ubu,
Bluetip,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Real Kids,
Nirvana,
The Human League,
Newcleus,
The Slackers,
Idris Muhammad,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Moody Blues,
UT,
Suicide,
Deakin,
Little Man,
Ornette Coleman,
Oneida,
Porter Ricks,
Black Flag, Black Flag, Black Flag, Black Flag.
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.