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 Iceland and from Taipei.
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 1965 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Main Source to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Hoover. All the underground hits.
All B.T. Express tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every DJ Style record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 sitar and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Matthew Halsall record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Jesper Dahlback,
48th St. Collective,
Alphaville,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
New Age Steppers,
Grauzone,
Cecil Taylor,
Crooked Eye,
Metal Thangz,
Aswad,
Fat Boys,
Todd Terry,
Skarface,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Symarip,
The Real Kids,
Josef K,
Ohio Players,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Toni Rubio,
Sandy B,
Neu!,
Danielle Patucci,
The Barracudas,
Au Pairs,
Junior Murvin,
Dorothy Ashby,
Fugazi,
Model 500,
Nik Kershaw,
Marine Girls,
Nirvana,
Girls At Our Best!,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Youth Brigade,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Scrapy,
Supertramp,
F. McDonald,
Adolescents,
Newcleus,
Amon Düül II,
Henry Cow,
This Heat,
Dead Boys,
Bronski Beat,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Altered Images,
Matthew Halsall,
Barrington Levy,
The Searchers,
Susan Cadogan,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Donny Hathaway,
Von Mondo,
Michelle Simonal,
Darondo,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
It's A Beautiful Day, It's A Beautiful Day, It's A Beautiful Day, It's A Beautiful Day.
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.