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 Jordan and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and New York.
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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Stereo Dub to the punk 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 Yaz. All the underground hits.
All Ajijia Myrayebe tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lalann 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a JFA record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Germs,
Negative Approach,
Sun Ra,
Crooked Eye,
Thompson Twins,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Sex Pistols,
Von Mondo,
Gastr Del Sol,
DJ Style,
Duran Duran,
The Victims,
Accadde A,
Television,
Smog,
Black Moon,
The Gories,
Kaleidoscope,
Ludus,
Jesper Dahlback,
10cc,
Avey Tare,
Derrick Morgan,
Jeff Mills,
Johnny Clarke,
Rekid,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Buckinghams,
Basic Channel,
Grandmaster Flash,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Gladiators,
Don Cherry,
MC5,
Ice-T,
Echospace,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Oblivians,
Sister Nancy,
Soul Sonic Force,
Howard Jones,
Bauhaus,
the Slits,
Ossler,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Traffic Nightmare,
Ornette Coleman,
The Stooges,
Interpol,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Animal Collective,
Amazonics,
Sixth Finger,
Suburban Knight,
The Tremeloes,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Depeche Mode,
The Fugs,
Clear Light,
The Vogues,
Carl Craig,
Los Fastidios,
Anakelly, Anakelly, Anakelly, Anakelly.
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.