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 Mauritius and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South 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 1961 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Ultimate Spinach to the techno 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 The American Breed. All the underground hits.
All The Litter tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Litter record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visage record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Black Flag,
Stockholm Monsters,
Amon Düül,
Qualms,
One Last Wish,
Sam Rivers,
Television,
Radiohead,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
kango's stein massive,
Fluxion,
Circle Jerks,
Davy DMX,
Sonic Youth,
Groovy Waters,
Man Parrish,
Lower 48,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Oblivians,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Gregory Isaacs,
Quantec,
X-Ray Spex,
James White and The Blacks,
Bush Tetras,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Yazoo,
Boogie Down Productions,
DJ Style,
Stiv Bators,
Kaleidoscope,
Crispian St. Peters,
Parry Music,
Neil Young,
Audionom,
The Real Kids,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Morten Harket,
Crispy Ambulance,
H. Thieme,
Sun Ra,
Man Eating Sloth,
Marmalade,
the Germs,
Saccharine Trust,
This Heat,
Liliput,
U.S. Maple,
Wire,
Mary Jane Girls,
E-Dancer,
Minnie Riperton,
La Düsseldorf,
Massinfluence,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Sparks,
Bizarre Inc.,
Gang Green,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Shoche, Shoche, Shoche, Shoche.
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.