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 Jordan and from Johannesburg.
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 1963 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 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 Max Romeo to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Black Flag. All the underground hits.
All Lucky Dragons tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Alice Coltrane 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 snare and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Essential Logic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Danielle Patucci,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Roger Hodgson,
the Human League,
Boogie Down Productions,
Ultravox,
UT,
Audionom,
Con Funk Shun,
Gang Gang Dance,
Delta 5,
Black Bananas,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Skaos,
Jacob Miller,
Eddi Front,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
X-101,
Eli Mardock,
Lindisfarne,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Hasil Adkins,
OOIOO,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
the Bar-Kays,
Dave Gahan,
Minutemen,
Gastr Del Sol,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Invisible,
Mandrill,
EPMD,
The Mojo Men,
La Düsseldorf,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Interpol,
Eric Copeland,
Saccharine Trust,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Blancmange,
E-Dancer,
Drexciya,
Clear Light,
Mr. Review,
Symarip,
Masters at Work,
Maleditus Sound,
Icehouse,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Carl Craig,
Cymande,
Heaven 17,
Khruangbin,
June Days,
Darondo,
Bad Manners,
Monolake,
Von Mondo,
Deadbeat, Deadbeat, Deadbeat, Deadbeat.
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.