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 Kosovo and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1966 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 güiro 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 Sly & The Family Stone to the disco kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Ossler. All the underground hits.
All Pantaleimon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Negative Approach 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 808 and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Derrick Morgan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Neu!,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Rites of Spring,
Magma,
Lalann,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Kinks,
Mary Jane Girls,
Black Pus,
Reagan Youth,
Soft Cell,
ABC,
Silicon Teens,
New Age Steppers,
kango's stein massive,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Laurel Aitken,
FM Einheit,
Crispy Ambulance,
The Sound,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Fluxion,
Model 500,
Soul II Soul,
Judy Mowatt,
Joyce Sims,
Ken Boothe,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
In Retrospect,
The Wake,
Crime,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Fatback Band,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Technova,
Sixth Finger,
Panda Bear,
Jeff Mills,
The Searchers,
The Barracudas,
Sexual Harrassment,
Procol Harum,
U.S. Maple,
Eric Copeland,
Davy DMX,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Y Pants,
Index,
Charles Mingus,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Cybotron,
Soul Sonic Force,
Young Marble Giants,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Fear,
Minutemen,
the Fania All-Stars,
Juan Atkins, Juan Atkins, Juan Atkins, Juan Atkins.
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.