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 Panama and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1969 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 DeepChord presents Echospace 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 Terror Squad Feat. Camron. All the underground hits.
All The Cowsills tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Delon & Dalcan record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 güiro and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Traffic Nightmare record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro 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?
Glambeats Corp.,
Alison Limerick,
The Knickerbockers,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
CMW,
K-Klass,
Tommy Roe,
H. Thieme,
The Moody Blues,
Magma,
Albert Ayler,
The Skatalites,
Audionom,
UT,
Eric Copeland,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Rotary Connection,
Lakeside,
the Fania All-Stars,
Aural Exciters,
Dawn Penn,
10cc,
Camouflage,
Lalann,
The Fuzztones,
Rakim,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
The Misunderstood,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
La Düsseldorf,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Average White Band,
Lebanon Hanover,
Half Japanese,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Kerri Chandler,
Banda Bassotti,
Agent Orange,
Nirvana,
Talk Talk,
Yaz,
Dennis Brown,
Von Mondo,
Inner City,
Danielle Patucci,
Andrew Hill,
Delta 5,
Pole,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Amon Düül,
Warren Ellis,
Bang On A Can,
the Human League,
Neu!,
Joyce Sims,
The Pretty Things,
Franke, Franke, Franke, Franke.
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.