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 Palau and from Philadelphia.
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 1967 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Technova to the crunk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Accadde A. All the underground hits.
All A Flock of Seagulls tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cheater Slicks record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Accadde A record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
K-Klass,
The Residents,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Pole,
Whodini,
Altered Images,
Absolute Body Control,
The Smoke,
Peter & Gordon,
DNA,
Deadbeat,
Barrington Levy,
The Count Five,
Dawn Penn,
Mandrill,
Roxette,
Aswad,
Gang Gang Dance,
the Normal,
Robert Hood,
Stockholm Monsters,
Zero Boys,
Tommy Roe,
Circle Jerks,
The Fugs,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Sugar Minott,
Icehouse,
The Gun Club,
Boz Scaggs,
Iggy Pop,
ABC,
Graham Central Station,
Tears for Fears,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Young Marble Giants,
The Cramps,
Bobby Womack,
Los Fastidios,
Wally Richardson,
Joe Smooth,
Bluetip,
LL Cool J,
Soft Machine,
Boogie Down Productions,
Skarface,
Liliput,
Freddie Wadling,
Panda Bear,
Gong,
Eli Mardock,
Kerrie Biddell,
Yazoo,
Youth Brigade,
The Velvet Underground,
Sonny Sharrock,
Stetsasonic,
Matthew Halsall,
Echospace, Echospace, Echospace, Echospace.
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.