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 Eritrea and from Hong Kong.
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 1964 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Kayak to the grunge 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 Sunsets and Hearts. All the underground hits.
All Kas Product tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Vladislav Delay 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Maleditus Sound record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Shuggie Otis,
Cal Tjader,
Minutemen,
MDC,
Bang On A Can,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Marmalade,
The Angels of Light,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Pussy Galore,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
the Human League,
Jeff Mills,
Theoretical Girls,
Derrick Morgan,
The Litter,
The Cowsills,
The Trojans,
Ossler,
ABBA,
Davy DMX,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Danielle Patucci,
Ponytail,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Zero Boys,
Rotary Connection,
Lower 48,
Public Image Ltd.,
Junior Murvin,
Royal Trux,
Nation of Ulysses,
Radiohead,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
T. Rex,
The Human League,
Eric Copeland,
The Selecter,
Roxy Music,
the Association,
Symarip,
Stetsasonic,
Tommy Roe,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Blossom Toes,
Pierre Henry,
The Pretty Things,
kango's stein massive,
Bizarre Inc.,
Alton Ellis,
Yaz,
Anakelly,
The Evens,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Flamin' Groovies,
Nik Kershaw,
Tropical Tobacco,
Drexciya,
Camberwell Now,
Los Fastidios, Los Fastidios, Los Fastidios, Los Fastidios.
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.