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 Lesotho and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South 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 1961 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan to the disco 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 Kayak. All the underground hits.
All Sixth Finger tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Stiv Bators record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lalann record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Juan Atkins,
Nirvana,
Chris Corsano,
Mark Hollis,
Khruangbin,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Joe Smooth,
Ossler,
Eden Ahbez,
Blossom Toes,
The Slackers,
Au Pairs,
Yaz,
Alphaville,
June of 44,
Ludus,
Pussy Galore,
Motorama,
Eve St. Jones,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Gang Green,
Lalann,
Heaven 17,
Drive Like Jehu,
Blake Baxter,
Moebius,
Panda Bear,
Brass Construction,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Amon Düül II,
Godley & Creme,
Zero Boys,
LL Cool J,
The Smiths,
Wire,
Maleditus Sound,
Country Teasers,
Pylon,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
The Zeros,
Loose Ends,
Nick Fraelich,
Derrick May,
The United States of America,
Crime,
The Gap Band,
Gregory Isaacs,
Bad Manners,
This Heat,
Angry Samoans,
X-Ray Spex,
kango's stein massive,
Essential Logic,
Dark Day,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Faraquet,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Zapp,
Boogie Down Productions, Boogie Down Productions, Boogie Down Productions, Boogie Down Productions.
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.