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 Bolivia and from Taipei.
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 1963 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Joyce Sims to the techno 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 Ohio Players. All the underground hits.
All Colin Newman tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every AZ 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Stereo Dub record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
H. Thieme,
Soulsonic Force,
Public Enemy,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Visage,
Lower 48,
Rosa Yemen,
Letta Mbulu,
The Angels of Light,
Mission of Burma,
The Leaves,
The Alarm Clocks,
Hoover,
Amon Düül II,
Bobby Byrd,
China Crisis,
The Durutti Column,
Dorothy Ashby,
Panda Bear,
Siglo XX,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Delta 5,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Ohio Players,
Gang Gang Dance,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Charles Mingus,
Maleditus Sound,
Lightning Bolt,
The Vogues,
Bronski Beat,
Reuben Wilson,
U.S. Maple,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Q65,
Rod Modell,
The Motions,
B.T. Express,
June of 44,
Q and Not U,
Maurizio,
Spandau Ballet,
ABBA,
the Human League,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Fela Kuti,
Hasil Adkins,
Basic Channel,
Dual Sessions,
Index,
Joe Finger,
Big Daddy Kane,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Gladiators,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Motorama,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
the Fania All-Stars,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.