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 Malawi and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 Accra and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 Robert Palmer 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience to the grunge kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Grauzone. All the underground hits.
All Crispian St. Peters tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every H. Thieme 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Massinfluence record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Organ,
the Slits,
Howard Jones,
The Gladiators,
The Raincoats,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
June of 44,
Kaleidoscope,
Guru Guru,
Thee Headcoats,
Absolute Body Control,
Tom Boy,
The Gun Club,
Joensuu 1685,
Flash Fearless,
Lungfish,
Suicide,
Drexciya,
T.S.O.L.,
Clear Light,
Severed Heads,
Stockholm Monsters,
Public Image Ltd.,
Traffic Nightmare,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Technova,
Alice Coltrane,
The Fugs,
Dave Gahan,
Janne Schatter,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Ten City,
Newcleus,
Isaac Hayes,
La Düsseldorf,
The Mojo Men,
cv313,
Skarface,
Delta 5,
Derrick May,
Minny Pops,
Blossom Toes,
Barrington Levy,
The Cure,
B.T. Express,
Stereo Dub,
Black Sheep,
E-Dancer,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Divine Comedy,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Anakelly,
Khruangbin,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Babytalk,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Peter & Gordon,
Roy Ayers,
Kurtis Blow,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
L. Decosne,
Basic Channel, Basic Channel, Basic Channel, Basic Channel.
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.