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 Benin and from Edmonton.
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 1960 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 Chris & Cosey to the dance kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Schoolly D. All the underground hits.
All Nico tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scrapy record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 spring reverb and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Yaz record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Agent Orange,
Model 500,
Cecil Taylor,
Barry Ungar,
The Grass Roots,
8 Eyed Spy,
Be Bop Deluxe,
cv313,
Sarah Menescal,
Excepter,
Big Daddy Kane,
Public Enemy,
Audionom,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Aaron Thompson,
June Days,
Aswad,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Gladiators,
Lou Reed,
Rapeman,
Massinfluence,
Dave Gahan,
The Buckinghams,
Sound Behaviour,
The Offenders,
U.S. Maple,
Soul II Soul,
The Smoke,
Ituana,
La Düsseldorf,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Arthur Verocai,
Crime,
Marvin Gaye,
Camberwell Now,
Kaleidoscope,
The Motions,
Peter & Gordon,
Alton Ellis,
The Mummies,
Moebius,
Minutemen,
Soulsonic Force,
Ornette Coleman,
Slave,
Henry Cow,
Von Mondo,
Kas Product,
Saccharine Trust,
Dawn Penn,
T.S.O.L.,
Fela Kuti,
K-Klass,
Anthony Braxton,
Mission of Burma,
Nirvana,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Tremeloes,
Rites of Spring,
Roy Ayers,
Faust,
Television,
Das Ding, Das Ding, Das Ding, Das Ding.
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.