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 Micronesia and from Madrid.
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 1962 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Gong to the grime kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 The Jesus and Mary Chain. All the underground hits.
All Cameo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Divine Comedy 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sugar Minott record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Susan Cadogan,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Soft Cell,
Accadde A,
Minor Threat,
Skaos,
Gang Starr,
Crispian St. Peters,
Barry Ungar,
Wolf Eyes,
Rhythm & Sound,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Harmonia,
Dead Boys,
Funky Four + One,
Thompson Twins,
Model 500,
Eric Copeland,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Selecter,
Pole,
Porter Ricks,
Moby Grape,
Gang of Four,
Peter and Kerry,
The Electric Prunes,
Gong,
DJ Sneak,
Warsaw,
Amon Düül,
Boredoms,
Donald Byrd,
Brass Construction,
Jeff Mills,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Scion,
MC5,
Morten Harket,
Mark Hollis,
R.M.O.,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Lebanon Hanover,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Procol Harum,
Unwound,
Chris & Cosey,
The Evens,
Neil Young,
Buzzcocks,
Hardrive,
Big Daddy Kane,
Aural Exciters,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Mo-Dettes,
X-Ray Spex,
Danielle Patucci,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Howard Jones,
the Human League,
L. Decosne, L. Decosne, L. Decosne, L. Decosne.
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.