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 Lesotho and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1962 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 spring reverb 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 Swell Maps to the techno 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 Heavy D & The Boyz. All the underground hits.
All The Invisible tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jesper Dahlbäck record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Stetsasonic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Panda Bear,
Judy Mowatt,
Laurel Aitken,
Glenn Branca,
OOIOO,
La Düsseldorf,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Saccharine Trust,
Gastr Del Sol,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Heaven 17,
Sparks,
The Slits,
Franke,
The Gories,
Ice-T,
Boogie Down Productions,
Echospace,
Nik Kershaw,
Underground Resistance,
Rotary Connection,
John Foxx,
Lyres,
The Raincoats,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Althea and Donna,
Altered Images,
John Holt,
Lalann,
Minny Pops,
The Misunderstood,
Gang Gang Dance,
the Slits,
The American Breed,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Angry Samoans,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Oblivians,
Pylon,
Cluster,
Malaria!,
Funky Four + One,
Bill Wells,
Smog,
Fear,
Girls At Our Best!,
Alison Limerick,
Sun Ra,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Jeru the Damaja,
Shoche,
The Martian,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Mad Mike,
Minutemen,
Lower 48,
Todd Terry,
Ituana,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Visage,
JFA, JFA, JFA, JFA.
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.