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 Estonia and from Lille.
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 1966 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 guitar 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 Schoolly D to the rap kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Mark Hollis. All the underground hits.
All MC5 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Von Mondo 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Siouxsie and the Banshees record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Mo-Dettes,
Sarah Menescal,
Tommy Roe,
Harmonia,
The Birthday Party,
Japan,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Avey Tare,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Evens,
Bobby Sherman,
Khruangbin,
KRS-One,
Joyce Sims,
Hardrive,
Inner City,
Suburban Knight,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Pop Group,
Kurtis Blow,
Mandrill,
Clear Light,
Anthony Braxton,
Ornette Coleman,
Scrapy,
Tears for Fears,
Popol Vuh,
New York Dolls,
X-101,
Man Parrish,
Man Eating Sloth,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Dennis Brown,
Icehouse,
A Certain Ratio,
MDC,
Heaven 17,
the Sonics,
Country Teasers,
Lucky Dragons,
Basic Channel,
Freddie Wadling,
Gang of Four,
Sight & Sound,
Tomorrow,
Eve St. Jones,
Fluxion,
Neil Young,
Dark Day,
The Detroit Cobras,
John Lydon,
Faraquet,
Barry Ungar,
Amon Düül,
Susan Cadogan,
Black Flag,
The Black Dice,
The Selecter,
Sunsets and Hearts, Sunsets and Hearts, Sunsets and Hearts, Sunsets and Hearts.
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.