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 Russia and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 theremin 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 Ludus to the grime kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Lindisfarne. All the underground hits.
All Marine Girls tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Y Pants record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 an oboe and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Mighty Diamonds record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Von Mondo,
Boogie Down Productions,
John Lydon,
This Heat,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Qualms,
Youth Brigade,
Ituana,
Rekid,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Black Flag,
The Alarm Clocks,
Leonard Cohen,
Scientists,
Excepter,
Kevin Saunderson,
Absolute Body Control,
Lalann,
Technova,
The Shadows of Knight,
Dawn Penn,
Popol Vuh,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Monochrome Set,
Young Marble Giants,
Radio Birdman,
Oblivians,
Hardrive,
The Gap Band,
The Fuzztones,
Godley & Creme,
The New Christs,
Derrick May,
The Selecter,
These Immortal Souls,
Parry Music,
Black Pus,
John Cale,
D'Angelo,
Spandau Ballet,
Joe Smooth,
Unwound,
Nick Fraelich,
Japan,
Sound Behaviour,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Janne Schatter,
Idris Muhammad,
Shoche,
Mantronix,
Shuggie Otis,
Susan Cadogan,
The Dave Clark Five,
Panda Bear,
Kerri Chandler,
Camberwell Now,
Kurtis Blow,
The Young Rascals,
The Blues Magoos,
Royal Trux,
Howard Jones,
Fad Gadget, Fad Gadget, Fad Gadget, Fad Gadget.
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.