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 Finland and from Sao Paulo.
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 1967 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the 808 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 June of 44 to the electroclash 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 X-Ray Spex. All the underground hits.
All Oneida tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Echospace 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lee Hazlewood record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Moss Icon,
Grauzone,
Echospace,
Youth Brigade,
John Cale,
The Black Dice,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Average White Band,
UT,
the Swans,
The Sonics,
Skriet,
The Slackers,
The Standells,
Gabor Szabo,
Eurythmics,
Ice-T,
Scott Walker,
Crispy Ambulance,
Todd Terry,
New York Dolls,
Al Stewart,
The Cure,
Quando Quango,
Babytalk,
Electric Prunes,
Glenn Branca,
Quadrant,
Radio Birdman,
The Walker Brothers,
The Count Five,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Stooges,
The Cramps,
Jerry's Kids,
New Age Steppers,
Metal Thangz,
John Foxx,
Maleditus Sound,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Chris & Cosey,
the Fania All-Stars,
Roxette,
Soul Sonic Force,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Severed Heads,
Black Bananas,
In Retrospect,
Oblivians,
The Five Americans,
Tubeway Army,
Terry Callier,
Fear,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Aswad,
The Velvet Underground,
the Slits,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Kevin Saunderson,
8 Eyed Spy,
Glambeats Corp., Glambeats Corp., Glambeats Corp., Glambeats Corp..
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.