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 Paraguay and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1964 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the snare 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 Skriet to the punk 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 Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson. All the underground hits.
All Lower 48 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Can 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Dave Clark Five record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ajijia Myrayebe,
DJ Style,
L. Decosne,
Funkadelic,
Aloha Tigers,
The Neon Judgement,
Robert Görl,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Techniques,
Spoonie Gee,
Piero Umiliani,
Underground Resistance,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Subhumans,
Maurizio,
Pantaleimon,
Metal Thangz,
Audionom,
Sparks,
Masters at Work,
a-ha,
Terry Callier,
Rotary Connection,
Young Marble Giants,
Sonic Youth,
Scientists,
Gang Gang Dance,
This Heat,
Unwound,
Bobby Sherman,
Nation of Ulysses,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Skarface,
Dorothy Ashby,
kango's stein massive,
Judy Mowatt,
Ash Ra Tempel,
David McCallum,
Severed Heads,
X-102,
Soft Cell,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Faraquet,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Crime,
Cecil Taylor,
Pierre Henry,
Tom Boy,
Sugar Minott,
The Litter,
Easy Going,
Gang Green,
Joe Smooth,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Cure,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
8 Eyed Spy,
Jesper Dahlback,
Kevin Saunderson,
Warren Ellis,
Black Flag,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Searchers,
Sister Nancy,
The Sound, The Sound, The Sound, The Sound.
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.