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 Yemen and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 marimba 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 The Moleskins to the electroclash 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 Sound Behaviour. All the underground hits.
All Marine Girls tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every LL Cool J 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Drive Like Jehu record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Average White Band,
FM Einheit,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Cheater Slicks,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Minor Threat,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Cecil Taylor,
Malaria!,
Peter and Kerry,
John Cale,
Idris Muhammad,
Duran Duran,
OOIOO,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Gang Starr,
The Sonics,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Girls At Our Best!,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Aloha Tigers,
Joe Finger,
Erasure,
Henry Cow,
Rotary Connection,
Janne Schatter,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Drive Like Jehu,
Depeche Mode,
Arcadia,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Neon Judgement,
Chris Corsano,
World's Most,
The Standells,
Black Moon,
Stetsasonic,
Visage,
Bang On A Can,
Scrapy,
Simply Red,
Tubeway Army,
Bob Dylan,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Lou Reed,
The Monochrome Set,
Brass Construction,
Slick Rick,
The Smoke,
Wings,
Skaos,
Funky Four + One,
The Slackers,
The Cramps,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Camberwell Now,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Ash Ra Tempel, Ash Ra Tempel, Ash Ra Tempel, Ash Ra Tempel.
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.