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 Macedonia and from Madrid.
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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic to the crunk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Wire. All the underground hits.
All Peter & Gordon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Nils Olav record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Count Five,
Dark Day,
Kerrie Biddell,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
ABBA,
Gabor Szabo,
Royal Trux,
Silicon Teens,
Parry Music,
Jeru the Damaja,
Second Layer,
the Human League,
Urselle,
Rekid,
Barrington Levy,
Marc Almond,
Television,
OOIOO,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Q and Not U,
Japan,
Negative Approach,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Sugar Minott,
Spoonie Gee,
Darondo,
The Seeds,
Toni Rubio,
Alison Limerick,
Peter and Kerry,
Wire,
Hashim,
Brass Construction,
Blake Baxter,
John Foxx,
Chrome,
F. McDonald,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Searchers,
Bill Near,
Young Marble Giants,
FM Einheit,
Bush Tetras,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Vainqueur,
Crispian St. Peters,
Rakim,
Roxette,
Main Source,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Sound Behaviour,
David Bowie,
Sandy B,
Harmonia,
Cluster,
Dave Gahan,
Fela Kuti,
Quantec,
The Angels of Light,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
James White and The Blacks, James White and The Blacks, James White and The Blacks, James White and The Blacks.
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.