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 Kosovo and from London.
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 1969 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 1976 at the first Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the snare 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 Eli Mardock to the disco 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 Pole. All the underground hits.
All Carl Craig tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fluxion 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kas Product record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dennis Brown,
The Grass Roots,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Rakim,
H. Thieme,
Groovy Waters,
Jimmy McGriff,
Aloha Tigers,
Big Daddy Kane,
Ultra Naté,
Byron Stingily,
Blake Baxter,
Barclay James Harvest,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Henry Cow,
Chris & Cosey,
Skaos,
The Moody Blues,
Banda Bassotti,
Mo-Dettes,
Lakeside,
Idris Muhammad,
Smog,
The New Christs,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Erasure,
David Axelrod,
Anthony Braxton,
Soul II Soul,
ABBA,
Ludus,
The Fugs,
Faust,
Bad Manners,
Index,
Radiopuhelimet,
Suburban Knight,
James White and The Blacks,
Joey Negro,
Gichy Dan,
Nation of Ulysses,
Scan 7,
Sound Behaviour,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Davy DMX,
Alison Limerick,
U.S. Maple,
Kevin Saunderson,
DJ Sneak,
Sugar Minott,
Black Pus,
Rapeman,
Peter and Kerry,
The Music Machine,
Ken Boothe,
Los Fastidios,
The United States of America,
Funky Four + One,
Circle Jerks,
The Fall,
The Birthday Party,
Howard Jones, Howard Jones, Howard Jones, Howard Jones.
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.