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 Dominican Republic and from Lyon.
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 1960 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 linndrum 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 Fugazi 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 Cybotron. All the underground hits.
All Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Kinks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Derrick May,
The Mojo Men,
Eric Dolphy,
Matthew Halsall,
The Raincoats,
Man Eating Sloth,
Bobbi Humphrey,
OOIOO,
Tears for Fears,
Grauzone,
Janne Schatter,
Ponytail,
Donald Byrd,
the Association,
Stockholm Monsters,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Peter & Gordon,
Steve Hackett,
Roxette,
Con Funk Shun,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Intrusion,
UT,
Delta 5,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Evens,
Lower 48,
Cal Tjader,
Black Sheep,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Soft Cell,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Masters at Work,
Subhumans,
Mr. Review,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Kurtis Blow,
Barbara Tucker,
John Coltrane,
Spoonie Gee,
Todd Terry,
John Lydon,
Nils Olav,
D'Angelo,
Jandek,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Harpers Bizarre,
Au Pairs,
Ice-T,
Traffic Nightmare,
Lebanon Hanover,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Archie Shepp,
the Germs,
Q and Not U,
Absolute Body Control,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Lungfish,
Technova, Technova, Technova, Technova.
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.