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 Greece and from Toronto.
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 1961 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 güiro 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 Tres Demented to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Michelle Simonal. All the underground hits.
All Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Notorious Big And Bone Thugs record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Massinfluence record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kool Moe Dee,
Funky Four + One,
Thee Headcoats,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Janne Schatter,
Television,
Tim Buckley,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Ponytail,
Aloha Tigers,
Donny Hathaway,
The Velvet Underground,
Scan 7,
Joe Finger,
Adolescents,
Agent Orange,
Barbara Tucker,
Maleditus Sound,
Royal Trux,
Bobby Womack,
Audionom,
Sarah Menescal,
The Misunderstood,
Moebius,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
A Certain Ratio,
Yazoo,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Marc Almond,
OOIOO,
Soul II Soul,
Liliput,
Jesper Dahlback,
Pet Shop Boys,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Maurizio,
Marvin Gaye,
Hasil Adkins,
Gang of Four,
The Dave Clark Five,
John Holt,
The Sound,
Flipper,
Depeche Mode,
Dave Gahan,
Eurythmics,
Procol Harum,
The Motions,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Gladiators,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Toasters,
Buzzcocks,
Rites of Spring,
Qualms,
Oblivians,
Neu!,
PIL,
Isaac Hayes,
Alton Ellis,
Black Moon,
Alison Limerick,
Marshall Jefferson, Marshall Jefferson, Marshall Jefferson, Marshall Jefferson.
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.