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 Slovakia and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 The Durutti Column to the rock kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan. All the underground hits.
All Mandrill tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Marc Almond record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a David McCallum record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gichy Dan,
Minnie Riperton,
Black Sheep,
David Bowie,
Robert Görl,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Knickerbockers,
The United States of America,
Ohio Players,
Kool Moe Dee,
Connie Case,
Negative Approach,
Girls At Our Best!,
Glambeats Corp.,
Stetsasonic,
Barclay James Harvest,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Jacques Brel,
Donny Hathaway,
Icehouse,
Cal Tjader,
Lightning Bolt,
Scratch Acid,
Henry Cow,
Eric Dolphy,
Niagra,
Black Flag,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Moby Grape,
Moss Icon,
John Lydon,
Barrington Levy,
Marine Girls,
Parry Music,
The Star Department,
the Sonics,
Shoche,
Isaac Hayes,
Bob Dylan,
Marvin Gaye,
AZ,
U.S. Maple,
Tears for Fears,
Sam Rivers,
Unrelated Segments,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Crash Course in Science,
Joe Finger,
ABC,
Chrome,
Audionom,
Peter & Gordon,
The New Christs,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Supertramp,
L. Decosne,
The Music Machine,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Lyres,
Pantytec, Pantytec, Pantytec, Pantytec.
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.