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 Australia and from Seoul.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 sitar 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 Spoonie Gee to the rap kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Cheater Slicks. All the underground hits.
All Arab on Radar tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rakim record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Carl Craig record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
8 Eyed Spy,
Todd Rundgren,
Joey Negro,
Los Fastidios,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Kas Product,
Visage,
The Angels of Light,
Quando Quango,
The Motions,
Iggy Pop,
Pole,
Kool Moe Dee,
Colin Newman,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Lou Christie,
Shoche,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Yaz,
Minny Pops,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Lyres,
Avey Tare,
the Slits,
Shuggie Otis,
The Fortunes,
Eric Copeland,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Can,
The Invisible,
Althea and Donna,
The Techniques,
Derrick Morgan,
Marvin Gaye,
Maleditus Sound,
David McCallum,
Drive Like Jehu,
Rotary Connection,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Loose Ends,
The Modern Lovers,
Adolescents,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Circle Jerks,
The Mojo Men,
In Retrospect,
Erasure,
Sandy B,
Jimmy McGriff,
Peter & Gordon,
This Heat,
Gabor Szabo,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Camberwell Now,
Unwound,
John Holt,
The Beau Brummels,
The Stooges,
The Searchers,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron.
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.