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 Japan and from Hong Kong.
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 1967 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Organ to the rock kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Gang Gang Dance. All the underground hits.
All Curtis Mayfield tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Black Dice 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Scion record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 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?
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Gladiators,
Barbara Tucker,
kango's stein massive,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Barry Ungar,
The Cowsills,
Curtis Mayfield,
Blancmange,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Faraquet,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Invisible,
Minor Threat,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Dead C,
Cal Tjader,
Depeche Mode,
Franke,
OOIOO,
the Swans,
Delta 5,
Half Japanese,
Ken Boothe,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Hashim,
Ornette Coleman,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Lakeside,
The Divine Comedy,
Henry Cow,
The Slackers,
The Offenders,
Bob Dylan,
Smog,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Skarface,
Bauhaus,
The Vogues,
the Association,
Silicon Teens,
The Associates,
Skaos,
Drexciya,
Bill Near,
Pierre Henry,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Public Enemy,
Make Up,
The Smoke,
Technova,
John Foxx,
The Smiths,
One Last Wish,
Absolute Body Control,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Harry Pussy,
Wally Richardson,
Ponytail,
Carl Craig,
The Stooges,
Michelle Simonal, Michelle Simonal, Michelle Simonal, Michelle Simonal.
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.