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 Fiji and from Lagos.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Gong to the rap kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Camouflage. All the underground hits.
All Jeff Lynne tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Quantec record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Groovy Waters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Velvet Underground,
Youth Brigade,
Scrapy,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Tropical Tobacco,
Echospace,
X-101,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Soft Cell,
The Slackers,
Fad Gadget,
Infiniti,
Lightning Bolt,
Drexciya,
Bootsy Collins,
MDC,
Main Source,
Josef K,
Moebius,
Yaz,
Duran Duran,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Dawn Penn,
Darondo,
The New Christs,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Moleskins,
Sugar Minott,
Oblivians,
Surgeon,
The Modern Lovers,
Clear Light,
Stockholm Monsters,
Tom Boy,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Country Teasers,
The Names,
Archie Shepp,
ABC,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Knickerbockers,
James White and The Blacks,
Pantytec,
Parry Music,
Spoonie Gee,
Yazoo,
Cybotron,
Intrusion,
Crash Course in Science,
Negative Approach,
Camouflage,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Thee Headcoats,
The Angels of Light,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Das Ding,
Matthew Bourne,
Wire,
Organ,
June of 44, June of 44, June of 44, June of 44.
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.