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 Papua New Guinea and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1970.
I was there at the first Onyeabor show in Enugu.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the sitar 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 Hasil Adkins to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell. All the underground hits.
All Lonnie Liston Smith tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lou Reed record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 an arpeggiator and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lebanon Hanover record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Popol Vuh,
The Gap Band,
Cheater Slicks,
Blossom Toes,
Shoche,
Derrick Morgan,
MDC,
The Busters,
Arcadia,
The Fortunes,
AZ,
The Knickerbockers,
Drexciya,
Absolute Body Control,
The Golliwogs,
The Modern Lovers,
Lindisfarne,
Girls At Our Best!,
Das Ding,
Essential Logic,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Howard Jones,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Yazoo,
Negative Approach,
Icehouse,
David Axelrod,
Ten City,
The Motions,
Crime,
Y Pants,
Brothers Johnson,
China Crisis,
Kas Product,
Sex Pistols,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Brand Nubian,
DJ Sneak,
Neu!,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Reuben Wilson,
Quando Quango,
Sugar Minott,
Eden Ahbez,
The Happenings,
Loose Ends,
The Wake,
Au Pairs,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Stooges,
Aloha Tigers,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Lebanon Hanover,
Lower 48,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Faust,
John Holt,
The J.B.'s,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Section 25,
FM Einheit, FM Einheit, FM Einheit, FM Einheit.
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.