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 Vanuatu and from Madrid.
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 1969 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 arpeggiator 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 Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft to the grunge 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 A Certain Ratio. All the underground hits.
All EPMD tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Technova 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Vainqueur record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Radiohead,
Agent Orange,
Mantronix,
The Pop Group,
Suicide,
John Coltrane,
Das Ding,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Saccharine Trust,
The Seeds,
Brothers Johnson,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Public Image Ltd.,
Fat Boys,
Crooked Eye,
Gil Scott Heron,
Graham Central Station,
Excepter,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Pharoah Sanders,
Boz Scaggs,
Judy Mowatt,
Marmalade,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Royal Trux,
Severed Heads,
The Neon Judgement,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Wire,
The Human League,
The Busters,
Jimmy McGriff,
Tim Buckley,
Janne Schatter,
X-102,
Lucky Dragons,
The Fire Engines,
Masters at Work,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Monolake,
The Searchers,
The Birthday Party,
Slave,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Gichy Dan,
H. Thieme,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Oblivians,
The Golliwogs,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Ossler,
Kayak,
World's Most,
Grauzone,
Rotary Connection,
Nation of Ulysses,
Stockholm Monsters,
Black Moon,
48th St. Collective,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon.
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.