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 Rwanda 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 1962 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Janne Schatter to the techno 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 Cybotron. All the underground hits.
All The Pop Group tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Busters record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Quantec record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Girls At Our Best!,
The Black Dice,
Can,
Iggy Pop,
The Searchers,
The Young Rascals,
Albert Ayler,
The Monks,
Sonny Sharrock,
Joensuu 1685,
The Evens,
Shuggie Otis,
The Birthday Party,
Cheater Slicks,
The Fortunes,
Ten City,
Eric B and Rakim,
Amazonics,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Raincoats,
Avey Tare,
Moby Grape,
New Order,
Slave,
Chris Corsano,
Funkadelic,
Basic Channel,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
The Pretty Things,
DJ Style,
Fluxion,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Metal Thangz,
A Certain Ratio,
Bronski Beat,
Terrestrial Tones,
James White and The Blacks,
Visage,
Minny Pops,
Panda Bear,
Porter Ricks,
Funky Four + One,
The Gap Band,
Ultimate Spinach,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Ronnie Foster,
Curtis Mayfield,
Colin Newman,
Amon Düül II,
Donald Byrd,
Laurel Aitken,
EPMD,
Con Funk Shun,
Pierre Henry,
Black Flag,
Hoover,
The Names,
Toni Rubio,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Warren Ellis,
Electric Light Orchestra, Electric Light Orchestra, Electric Light Orchestra, Electric Light Orchestra.
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.