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 Jamaica and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1960 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 theremin 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 Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five to the grime 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 Intrusion. All the underground hits.
All The Mummies tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bootsy's Rubber Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer 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?
Matthew Halsall,
Lower 48,
Monks,
Slick Rick,
Eric Copeland,
It's A Beautiful Day,
T. Rex,
Arthur Verocai,
UT,
Jandek,
Morten Harket,
Scratch Acid,
Jerry Gold Smith,
China Crisis,
Juan Atkins,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Human League,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
OOIOO,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Minny Pops,
Parry Music,
Intrusion,
Marshall Jefferson,
David Bowie,
Thee Headcoats,
KRS-One,
Arab on Radar,
Symarip,
Pole,
The Kinks,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Bootsy Collins,
Nick Fraelich,
AZ,
Robert Hood,
Supertramp,
Gabor Szabo,
Chrome,
Mission of Burma,
Aloha Tigers,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Rapeman,
the Soft Cell,
Sonic Youth,
David McCallum,
the Association,
Ten City,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Lightning Bolt,
Kerri Chandler,
Khruangbin,
The Misunderstood,
Crispy Ambulance,
Echospace,
Kenny Larkin,
This Heat,
Marine Girls,
The Toasters, The Toasters, The Toasters, The Toasters.
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.