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 Egypt and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South 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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 theremin 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 Oneida to the punk 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 One Last Wish. All the underground hits.
All Cluster tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Leonard Cohen record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 an oboe and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Danielle Patucci record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Q and Not U,
Kaleidoscope,
Pantaleimon,
Surgeon,
Can,
Tres Demented,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Warren Ellis,
Arthur Verocai,
Harpers Bizarre,
Subhumans,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Anthony Braxton,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Sister Nancy,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Gories,
Junior Murvin,
Colin Newman,
Cymande,
the Swans,
The Standells,
Maurizio,
Siglo XX,
Supertramp,
Basic Channel,
Lakeside,
Pagans,
Soulsonic Force,
The Kinks,
Matthew Halsall,
Magazine,
John Holt,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Monochrome Set,
In Retrospect,
The Trojans,
MDC,
Marcia Griffiths,
Robert Hood,
Desert Stars,
Zero Boys,
Kerri Chandler,
Robert Görl,
Average White Band,
Stetsasonic,
The Knickerbockers,
Rhythm & Sound,
Bob Dylan,
Roy Ayers,
Cluster,
T. Rex,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Connie Case,
Jacob Miller,
Funky Four + One,
Quando Quango,
Ornette Coleman,
Infiniti,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Mr. Review, Mr. Review, Mr. Review, Mr. Review.
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.