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 St Lucia and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1966 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 theremin 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 Section 25 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 Jerry Gold Smith. All the underground hits.
All T.S.O.L. tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sun Ra 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Wolf Eyes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lyres,
Symarip,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
ABC,
The New Christs,
Cymande,
Pulsallama,
Ultra Naté,
Das Ding,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Cheater Slicks,
the Association,
June Days,
Lou Reed,
The Birthday Party,
a-ha,
Altered Images,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Sight & Sound,
Radiohead,
Audionom,
The Toasters,
The Associates,
Warren Ellis,
Gil Scott Heron,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
the Sonics,
The Divine Comedy,
Rapeman,
Janne Schatter,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Dave Gahan,
Anthony Braxton,
Accadde A,
The Leaves,
New Age Steppers,
Byron Stingily,
Gang of Four,
Suicide,
Aaron Thompson,
Lalo Schifrin,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Peter & Gordon,
Flamin' Groovies,
Rotary Connection,
DJ Style,
Toni Rubio,
Fugazi,
Tres Demented,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Lou Christie,
Max Romeo,
Sonny Sharrock,
Fela Kuti,
Icehouse,
Jesper Dahlback,
Animal Collective,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Beau Brummels,
Jerry's Kids, Jerry's Kids, Jerry's Kids, Jerry's Kids.
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.