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 Nauru and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1964 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Basic Channel to the dance 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 Pylon. All the underground hits.
All The Fortunes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Essential Logic record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a CMW record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Black Bananas,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Panda Bear,
Desert Stars,
Goldenarms,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Agitation Free,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Flash Fearless,
The Fortunes,
Crispy Ambulance,
Au Pairs,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Gun Club,
Sparks,
Amon Düül II,
Adolescents,
Bush Tetras,
Robert Görl,
Nik Kershaw,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Rakim,
Deadbeat,
Scott Walker,
The Fall,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Newcleus,
Vladislav Delay,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Althea and Donna,
Ken Boothe,
FM Einheit,
The Shadows of Knight,
Thompson Twins,
Joyce Sims,
Siglo XX,
Andrew Hill,
The Last Poets,
Terrestrial Tones,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
R.M.O.,
Gang Gang Dance,
Nirvana,
Isaac Hayes,
Marcia Griffiths,
Jawbox,
Q and Not U,
The Misunderstood,
Bang On A Can,
The Fugs,
Jimmy McGriff,
Wings,
Sister Nancy,
The Associates,
The Moody Blues,
The Litter,
Blake Baxter,
Ultra Naté,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
E-Dancer,
Essential Logic, Essential Logic, Essential Logic, Essential Logic.
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.