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 Slovakia and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 1983 at the first Art of Noise practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Sonics to the disco kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 The Monochrome Set. All the underground hits.
All Basic Channel tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Isaac Hayes 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Justin Hinds & The Dominoes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Human League,
The Knickerbockers,
Rapeman,
The Buckinghams,
Erykah Badu,
Make Up,
In Retrospect,
Sound Behaviour,
The Gladiators,
Amon Düül II,
Nas,
The Neon Judgement,
Youth Brigade,
Neu!,
Fat Boys,
Suburban Knight,
Funky Four + One,
X-102,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Maleditus Sound,
The Five Americans,
The Young Rascals,
Drive Like Jehu,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Chris & Cosey,
Cybotron,
Marc Almond,
Monolake,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Litter,
Jandek,
Reuben Wilson,
The Sound,
The Cowsills,
Don Cherry,
Scrapy,
The Fugs,
Junior Murvin,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Danielle Patucci,
Carl Craig,
Magma,
Darondo,
The Doobie Brothers,
Procol Harum,
Susan Cadogan,
Fifty Foot Hose,
CMW,
D'Angelo,
The Pretty Things,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Dave Clark Five,
The New Christs,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Ornette Coleman,
Talk Talk,
Television Personalities,
Scratch Acid,
Gregory Isaacs,
Eric Copeland, Eric Copeland, Eric Copeland, Eric Copeland.
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.