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 Czech Republic and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax 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 linndrum 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 Moby Grape to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Gerry Rafferty. All the underground hits.
All Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ronnie Foster 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Circle Jerks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Public Image Ltd.,
Adolescents,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
UT,
Sexual Harrassment,
Erykah Badu,
Fela Kuti,
Little Man,
Metal Thangz,
OOIOO,
Vainqueur,
Ponytail,
Todd Rundgren,
Nas,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Kool Moe Dee,
Kenny Larkin,
Quantec,
The Martian,
Ossler,
Suburban Knight,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
John Lydon,
Scan 7,
Animal Collective,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Vogues,
Magazine,
David McCallum,
Ten City,
Das Ding,
Guru Guru,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Stockholm Monsters,
F. McDonald,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Gladiators,
X-102,
Roxette,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Eden Ahbez,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Hoover,
kango's stein massive,
Freddie Wadling,
Simply Red,
The Victims,
Brass Construction,
Lou Christie,
The Gories,
Von Mondo,
The Leaves,
Parry Music,
Depeche Mode,
Scott Walker,
Whodini,
Theoretical Girls,
The Young Rascals,
The Mojo Men,
The Gap Band,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron.
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.