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 Malaysia and from Glasgow.
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 1967 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Wire to the funk 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 Bobby Sherman. All the underground hits.
All Delta 5 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Babytalk record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Stooges record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lower 48,
Talk Talk,
Liliput,
The New Christs,
Von Mondo,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Kerrie Biddell,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
June Days,
The Cramps,
Quantec,
Bootsy Collins,
Ultravox,
New Age Steppers,
Bob Dylan,
Piero Umiliani,
The Moleskins,
The Sonics,
The Blackbyrds,
Faraquet,
The Velvet Underground,
The Buckinghams,
Wings,
Deakin,
Roger Hodgson,
Moebius,
Camberwell Now,
Marc Almond,
The Cure,
Half Japanese,
Boogie Down Productions,
DJ Style,
Eddi Front,
The Motions,
David Bowie,
These Immortal Souls,
Sexual Harrassment,
Bill Wells,
Pussy Galore,
Joyce Sims,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Drive Like Jehu,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
the Human League,
the Association,
The Beau Brummels,
Agitation Free,
Bauhaus,
Radiopuhelimet,
Babytalk,
The Slits,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Animal Collective,
Charles Mingus,
The Neon Judgement,
Funky Four + One,
Sonic Youth, Sonic Youth, Sonic Youth, Sonic Youth.
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.