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 Haiti and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1965 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Woodstock.
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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Sight & Sound to the grunge kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Lee Hazlewood. All the underground hits.
All Sixth Finger tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bang On A Can record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 a theremin and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Scrapy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bad Manners,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Mr. Review,
Tommy Roe,
Sarah Menescal,
Toni Rubio,
Byron Stingily,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Smiths,
Khruangbin,
Goldenarms,
Los Fastidios,
Fela Kuti,
Deepchord,
Dark Day,
The Durutti Column,
Sandy B,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Doobie Brothers,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Beau Brummels,
Ludus,
Motorama,
Terrestrial Tones,
Slick Rick,
The Invisible,
The Real Kids,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Theoretical Girls,
Faust,
X-101,
Radiopuhelimet,
Sällskapet,
Gichy Dan,
Yazoo,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
the Slits,
Boz Scaggs,
Massinfluence,
Brand Nubian,
Glambeats Corp.,
Monolake,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
a-ha,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Grauzone,
John Cale,
Kerrie Biddell,
H. Thieme,
Black Flag,
The Star Department,
The Smoke,
Echospace,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Althea and Donna,
Rites of Spring,
Hoover,
Cheater Slicks,
The Grass Roots,
Quantec,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience.
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.