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 Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1968 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the snare 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 Skaos to the disco kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Joensuu 1685. All the underground hits.
All Gil Scott Heron tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Motions record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 a güiro and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Panda Bear record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Count Five,
Anthony Braxton,
Television Personalities,
Sun Ra,
Zapp,
X-102,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Leonard Cohen,
DJ Sneak,
EPMD,
The Neon Judgement,
Sugar Minott,
Magazine,
Hashim,
Wire,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Little Man,
Dual Sessions,
The Kinks,
Slave,
Suburban Knight,
Thompson Twins,
Kaleidoscope,
Letta Mbulu,
Second Layer,
Lucky Dragons,
Pussy Galore,
Essential Logic,
Hoover,
Television,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Mo-Dettes,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Fugs,
Unrelated Segments,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Kool Moe Dee,
Ultimate Spinach,
Mantronix,
Fear,
The Fire Engines,
Crime,
Monolake,
Blossom Toes,
Ultra Naté,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Siglo XX,
Peter and Kerry,
Alice Coltrane,
Scott Walker,
Banda Bassotti,
Bill Wells,
Urselle,
Jesper Dahlback,
Sixth Finger,
Mars,
Audionom,
Judy Mowatt,
8 Eyed Spy,
The Dead C, The Dead C, The Dead C, The Dead C.
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.