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 Korea North and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1969 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 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 Cal Tjader to the dance kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Organ. All the underground hits.
All John Lydon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Model 500 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 chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Terrestrial Tones record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Chris & Cosey,
Byron Stingily,
Traffic Nightmare,
Monolake,
Marine Girls,
The Slackers,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Derrick May,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Delon & Dalcan,
E-Dancer,
Wolf Eyes,
Rod Modell,
Joensuu 1685,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Rapeman,
Kevin Saunderson,
Bush Tetras,
Black Moon,
Pantaleimon,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Magazine,
The Martian,
Grey Daturas,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Alarm Clocks,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Make Up,
PIL,
The Gladiators,
Agitation Free,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Accadde A,
FM Einheit,
Johnny Osbourne,
Rufus Thomas,
Los Fastidios,
Grandmaster Flash,
Vladislav Delay,
Warren Ellis,
Ultravox,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Pulsallama,
Thee Headcoats,
Symarip,
Man Eating Sloth,
The Fire Engines,
Bauhaus,
Tropical Tobacco,
Yaz,
Q65,
Sparks,
Aaron Thompson,
Yazoo,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Jacques Brel,
Janne Schatter,
Hoover,
Quando Quango,
Tom Boy,
Slave, Slave, Slave, Slave.
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.