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 India and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1969 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Big Daddy Kane to the crunk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Vainqueur. All the underground hits.
All The Black Dice tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every La Düsseldorf 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Alarm Clocks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eden Ahbez,
Hasil Adkins,
The Young Rascals,
Carl Craig,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Anthony Braxton,
Joyce Sims,
Bobby Sherman,
Sandy B,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Evens,
Todd Terry,
Peter & Gordon,
Davy DMX,
Throbbing Gristle,
Girls At Our Best!,
Nas,
Essential Logic,
Chris Corsano,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Youth Brigade,
Wasted Youth,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
R.M.O.,
The Detroit Cobras,
Terrestrial Tones,
Dark Day,
The Fall,
kango's stein massive,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Anakelly,
Aswad,
Bronski Beat,
The Velvet Underground,
Urselle,
LL Cool J,
Neu!,
Underground Resistance,
Barclay James Harvest,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Skatalites,
The Fortunes,
New Age Steppers,
Rosa Yemen,
Fugazi,
Q and Not U,
B.T. Express,
Scion,
Adolescents,
K-Klass,
Jeff Mills,
Sonic Youth,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Neil Young,
Sun Ra,
Connie Case,
Sad Lovers and Giants, Sad Lovers and Giants, Sad Lovers and Giants, Sad Lovers and Giants.
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.