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 Iraq and from Lyon.
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 1960 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 The Angels of Light to the jazz 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 Gian Franco Pienzio. All the underground hits.
All Jawbox tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eric Dolphy record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Shadows of Knight record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kas Product,
A Certain Ratio,
Gastr Del Sol,
Drexciya,
Colin Newman,
OOIOO,
Kevin Saunderson,
the Slits,
Country Teasers,
Radiohead,
Tropical Tobacco,
Television Personalities,
Reuben Wilson,
Adolescents,
Brass Construction,
D'Angelo,
Average White Band,
Youth Brigade,
Niagra,
The Blackbyrds,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Monolake,
Soulsonic Force,
Severed Heads,
Ludus,
Zapp,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Half Japanese,
The Mummies,
The Raincoats,
New Age Steppers,
Kerrie Biddell,
Lou Christie,
Mission of Burma,
Warren Ellis,
Whodini,
The Fortunes,
Eric Dolphy,
Toni Rubio,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Gun Club,
Spoonie Gee,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
K-Klass,
Technova,
Bauhaus,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Ralphi Rosario,
Rekid,
Soul Sonic Force,
Maurizio,
Amon Düül,
Leonard Cohen,
Second Layer,
the Bar-Kays,
Black Bananas,
Goldenarms,
Animal Collective,
Frankie Knuckles,
Amazonics,
Section 25,
Black Pus, Black Pus, Black Pus, Black Pus.
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.