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 Netherlands and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1962 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Jesper Dahlback to the punk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Alton Ellis. All the underground hits.
All Lungfish tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sixth Finger record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Mantronix record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jeff Mills,
Lakeside,
Mark Hollis,
Kerri Chandler,
Bad Manners,
The Monochrome Set,
Zapp,
Vladislav Delay,
Accadde A,
the Sonics,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Brothers Johnson,
Toni Rubio,
The Residents,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Derrick May,
X-101,
Supertramp,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Marc Almond,
The Motions,
the Association,
The Five Americans,
The Leaves,
Tommy Roe,
Erykah Badu,
Section 25,
MC5,
June Days,
Graham Central Station,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
The Wake,
Tom Boy,
Dead Boys,
Glambeats Corp.,
Nation of Ulysses,
Barclay James Harvest,
E-Dancer,
The Real Kids,
One Last Wish,
Freddie Wadling,
Mission of Burma,
Althea and Donna,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Blossom Toes,
Underground Resistance,
Jacob Miller,
Metal Thangz,
Fad Gadget,
Wolf Eyes,
Quando Quango,
The Count Five,
Scientists,
Panda Bear,
Johnny Osbourne,
Visage,
The Blackbyrds,
Harpers Bizarre,
Ten City, Ten City, Ten City, Ten City.
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.