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 Portugal and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1965 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Massinfluence to the grunge 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 Kerrie Biddell. All the underground hits.
All Sandy B tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Slits 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 theremin and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Davy DMX,
Idris Muhammad,
Youth Brigade,
Main Source,
The Divine Comedy,
Al Stewart,
Kurtis Blow,
Sparks,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Pop Group,
Barrington Levy,
Joe Smooth,
Iggy Pop,
Grandmaster Flash,
Loose Ends,
Charles Mingus,
Gang Green,
Chris & Cosey,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Toasters,
ABBA,
DNA,
Minor Threat,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Fugs,
Scratch Acid,
Neil Young,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Dawn Penn,
Funkadelic,
The Happenings,
Archie Shepp,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Morten Harket,
Reagan Youth,
Neu!,
The Mummies,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Smoke,
Sixth Finger,
Quantec,
Reuben Wilson,
The Victims,
The Knickerbockers,
Marcia Griffiths,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Newcleus,
D'Angelo,
Skriet,
Second Layer,
Yellowson,
John Cale,
The Detroit Cobras,
Kool Moe Dee,
Angry Samoans,
the Slits,
The Buckinghams,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Last Poets,
Pet Shop Boys, Pet Shop Boys, Pet Shop Boys, Pet Shop Boys.
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.