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 Turkmenistan and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1963 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the marimba 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 Cymande to the techno 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 Vainqueur. All the underground hits.
All Schoolly D tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bootsy Collins 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Von Mondo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Maurizio,
Donny Hathaway,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Barracudas,
New Order,
Sällskapet,
PIL,
The Cowsills,
Minny Pops,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Human League,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Raincoats,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Das Ding,
Bob Dylan,
Joy Division,
the Human League,
Eden Ahbez,
Godley & Creme,
Cluster,
Gastr Del Sol,
Letta Mbulu,
The Sound,
The Wake,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Trumans Water,
Pole,
Pussy Galore,
Flash Fearless,
the Normal,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Derrick May,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Sonic Youth,
Johnny Clarke,
Unrelated Segments,
Television Personalities,
Man Parrish,
Japan,
Lower 48,
Ten City,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Underground Resistance,
Soul Sonic Force,
Alison Limerick,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
OOIOO,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Bill Near,
the Association,
Black Sheep,
Dual Sessions,
Hardrive,
DNA,
The Music Machine,
the Swans,
The Remains,
Gong,
The Searchers, The Searchers, The Searchers, The Searchers.
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.