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 Greece and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1968 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Spokane.
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 1975 at the first Throbbing Gristle practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Pet Shop Boys to the disco kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Nik Kershaw. All the underground hits.
All Avey Tare tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Audionom record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Deakin record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Todd Terry,
The Happenings,
Radiopuhelimet,
Davy DMX,
Maurizio,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Martian,
Stockholm Monsters,
Janne Schatter,
The Busters,
Alphaville,
Swell Maps,
Freddie Wadling,
Second Layer,
The Doobie Brothers,
June Days,
The Slackers,
Soul Sonic Force,
Television,
The Birthday Party,
Connie Case,
The Standells,
Warren Ellis,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Roy Ayers,
Gang of Four,
Lucky Dragons,
Main Source,
The Raincoats,
cv313,
Urselle,
Eurythmics,
Susan Cadogan,
Ten City,
Nas,
Girls At Our Best!,
Quantec,
Funkadelic,
Cymande,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
David McCallum,
Goldenarms,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
L. Decosne,
Jimmy McGriff,
Agent Orange,
Jerry's Kids,
Bizarre Inc.,
Barry Ungar,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Brand Nubian,
Half Japanese,
Leonard Cohen,
The Young Rascals,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Rakim,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Cluster,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Gichy Dan, Gichy Dan, Gichy Dan, Gichy Dan.
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.