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 Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 spring reverb 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 Khruangbin to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Sarah Menescal. All the underground hits.
All Amazonics tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Wire record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Black Dice record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Happenings,
Throbbing Gristle,
Josef K,
Wolf Eyes,
Lucky Dragons,
Ludus,
The Doobie Brothers,
Pantaleimon,
Oneida,
Underground Resistance,
The Pretty Things,
Crash Course in Science,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Albert Ayler,
R.M.O.,
F. McDonald,
Tom Boy,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Colin Newman,
Delta 5,
Barbara Tucker,
Stiv Bators,
The Saints,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
the Germs,
Can,
The Gun Club,
Scrapy,
Letta Mbulu,
Roxy Music,
Technova,
Ultravox,
Soft Machine,
Joey Negro,
Fat Boys,
Zero Boys,
Radiopuhelimet,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Supertramp,
U.S. Maple,
Tommy Roe,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Birthday Party,
The Move,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Thompson Twins,
Carl Craig,
MC5,
Mars,
10cc,
Little Man,
The Velvet Underground,
The Beau Brummels,
Talk Talk,
Archie Shepp,
X-Ray Spex,
Funky Four + One,
Electric Light Orchestra, Electric Light Orchestra, Electric Light Orchestra, Electric Light Orchestra.
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.