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 Nauru and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1966 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Harmonia to the grime 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 Metal Thangz. All the underground hits.
All Harmonia tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Subhumans record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Moss Icon 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?
Johnny Osbourne,
Circle Jerks,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The Knickerbockers,
Davy DMX,
Newcleus,
Crooked Eye,
8 Eyed Spy,
Lightning Bolt,
Lou Christie,
The Associates,
Radiopuhelimet,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
MC5,
the Swans,
Zero Boys,
Big Daddy Kane,
The Music Machine,
John Lydon,
Unrelated Segments,
Livin' Joy,
Parry Music,
Joy Division,
Talk Talk,
Tom Boy,
Whodini,
Fluxion,
Black Flag,
Thee Headcoats,
Echospace,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Skarface,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Quadrant,
Boredoms,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
the Human League,
The Barracudas,
Marcia Griffiths,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Gun Club,
Nick Fraelich,
Magazine,
Ten City,
The Dirtbombs,
Minny Pops,
Sällskapet,
Sandy B,
Bill Wells,
Rod Modell,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The J.B.'s,
Hashim,
Ken Boothe,
Black Pus,
Royal Trux,
Gabor Szabo,
Wally Richardson,
Television Personalities,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Jimmy McGriff,
Tim Buckley,
Toni Rubio, Toni Rubio, Toni Rubio, Toni Rubio.
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.