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 Australia and from Toronto.
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 1961 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Bang on a Can All-Stars to the rock kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Simply Red. All the underground hits.
All Bobby Hutcherson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Be Bop Deluxe 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Toni Rubio record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Happenings,
Pantaleimon,
Fad Gadget,
Stetsasonic,
Mandrill,
Buzzcocks,
The Angels of Light,
In Retrospect,
Simply Red,
The Wake,
Masters at Work,
Bob Dylan,
Janne Schatter,
Drexciya,
Nick Fraelich,
Ken Boothe,
Average White Band,
Henry Cow,
Arthur Verocai,
The Litter,
Alphaville,
Whodini,
The Young Rascals,
kango's stein massive,
Aswad,
Delon & Dalcan,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Franke,
Moebius,
The Cramps,
Can,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Pantytec,
Tomorrow,
Surgeon,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Gladiators,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Motions,
Sound Behaviour,
Jeff Mills,
Electric Prunes,
The Stooges,
Alton Ellis,
The Misunderstood,
Cheater Slicks,
Kas Product,
Underground Resistance,
Steve Hackett,
Matthew Bourne,
Stereo Dub,
The New Christs,
Rites of Spring,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
X-102,
Grey Daturas,
Kurtis Blow,
Bizarre Inc.,
Mark Hollis,
Wally Richardson,
The Barracudas,
Ice-T,
La Düsseldorf,
Sugar Minott, Sugar Minott, Sugar Minott, Sugar Minott.
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.