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 Rwanda and from Mumbai.
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 1965 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 harpsichord 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 Lou Reed & Metallica to the jazz kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Crooked Eye. All the underground hits.
All DJ Sneak tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Country Teasers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Monochrome Set record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Hoover,
Depeche Mode,
Jeru the Damaja,
Howard Jones,
Second Layer,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Easy Going,
Slave,
Silicon Teens,
The Pretty Things,
Franke,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Interpol,
Hardrive,
Eurythmics,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Cymande,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Anthony Braxton,
Wire,
Banda Bassotti,
Kool Moe Dee,
Rhythm & Sound,
Tropical Tobacco,
Pantaleimon,
Chrome,
Minny Pops,
Loose Ends,
Cameo,
cv313,
T.S.O.L.,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
A Certain Ratio,
Grey Daturas,
The Fall,
Wasted Youth,
Skaos,
Buzzcocks,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Vladislav Delay,
Suicide,
Maleditus Sound,
These Immortal Souls,
Bad Manners,
The Raincoats,
UT,
Q65,
Gregory Isaacs,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Whodini,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Morten Harket,
Moby Grape,
Byron Stingily,
Soft Machine,
Carl Craig,
Scrapy,
Duran Duran,
Joyce Sims,
Audionom, Audionom, Audionom, Audionom.
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.