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 St Kitts & Nevis and from Manchester.
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 1966 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Sunsets and Hearts to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Oneida. All the underground hits.
All Outsiders tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mary Jane Girls record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Sonics record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Index,
Faraquet,
Angry Samoans,
The Divine Comedy,
The Monochrome Set,
Gang of Four,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Unrelated Segments,
Japan,
Symarip,
This Heat,
Dave Gahan,
L. Decosne,
Lebanon Hanover,
Interpol,
Inner City,
Fad Gadget,
Jeff Lynne,
Black Flag,
Gang Green,
The American Breed,
Jesper Dahlback,
Glambeats Corp.,
Pet Shop Boys,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Grauzone,
The Gun Club,
The Knickerbockers,
June of 44,
Kaleidoscope,
Matthew Bourne,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Raincoats,
The Seeds,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Fortunes,
The Durutti Column,
Oblivians,
Animal Collective,
Prince Buster,
Silicon Teens,
Jeru the Damaja,
Donny Hathaway,
OOIOO,
Wolf Eyes,
Bush Tetras,
Make Up,
Swell Maps,
Rites of Spring,
Royal Trux,
Mandrill,
Heaven 17,
Andrew Hill,
Zero Boys,
Average White Band,
Alton Ellis,
Echospace,
Frankie Knuckles,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Rapeman,
The Fugs,
Ultravox,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam.
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.