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 St Kitts & Nevis and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Rod Modell. All the underground hits.
All Negative Approach tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Excepter record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
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 The Birthday Party record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Grandmaster Flash,
Brand Nubian,
Essential Logic,
Neil Young,
Ossler,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Grey Daturas,
Tres Demented,
Magma,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Rosa Yemen,
Buzzcocks,
Joy Division,
Bobby Sherman,
Mark Hollis,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Beasts of Bourbon,
The Neon Judgement,
Basic Channel,
Loose Ends,
Wasted Youth,
The Zeros,
Moss Icon,
Niagra,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Blake Baxter,
Radiopuhelimet,
Rod Modell,
The Red Krayola,
Todd Terry,
Dark Day,
Smog,
Barbara Tucker,
Archie Shepp,
Livin' Joy,
Chris Corsano,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Bronski Beat,
The Gun Club,
Brass Construction,
Sparks,
Royal Trux,
Mo-Dettes,
Harry Pussy,
Sugar Minott,
The Alarm Clocks,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Camberwell Now,
The Last Poets,
Black Pus,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Aloha Tigers,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Susan Cadogan,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Deepchord,
Lucky Dragons,
Mr. Review,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Terrestrial Tones,
Parry Music, Parry Music, Parry Music, Parry Music.
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.