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 Kosovo and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1960 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Bobby Hutcherson to the techno kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Warren Ellis. All the underground hits.
All Warsaw tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every World's Most 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Audionom record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Soulsonic Force,
Rakim,
The Move,
Aswad,
ABC,
The Sound,
Todd Rundgren,
Mission of Burma,
Clear Light,
Amon Düül II,
Essential Logic,
Pet Shop Boys,
Darondo,
The Star Department,
Crispy Ambulance,
Unrelated Segments,
Guru Guru,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Johnny Clarke,
Ten City,
Donny Hathaway,
Infiniti,
Iggy Pop,
Delon & Dalcan,
Letta Mbulu,
Organ,
Hoover,
Todd Terry,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Fear,
Mad Mike,
Scott Walker,
Whodini,
Zapp,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
The Barracudas,
Sun Ra,
The Trojans,
The Dead C,
Lebanon Hanover,
Make Up,
Oneida,
The Velvet Underground,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Pretty Things,
The Buckinghams,
Tomorrow,
Dark Day,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Duran Duran,
the Fania All-Stars,
Half Japanese,
Skriet,
The Slackers,
Sonic Youth,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
David McCallum,
Laurel Aitken,
Nico,
Joyce Sims,
the Soft Cell,
Rotary Connection,
Brass Construction, Brass Construction, Brass Construction, Brass Construction.
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.