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 Belarus and from Toronto.
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 1967 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Shuggie Otis to the rap kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Wire. All the underground hits.
All Warsaw tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Move record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rahsaan Roland Kirk 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?
Sly & The Family Stone,
Godley & Creme,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Joensuu 1685,
Pole,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Dead Boys,
Janne Schatter,
Laurel Aitken,
Adolescents,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Chris & Cosey,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Animal Collective,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
DNA,
Soul II Soul,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Tears for Fears,
Black Pus,
Soft Machine,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Crispy Ambulance,
Tom Boy,
Carl Craig,
Iggy Pop,
Pere Ubu,
Jeff Lynne,
Groovy Waters,
Easy Going,
PIL,
Depeche Mode,
Desert Stars,
The Fuzztones,
Inner City,
The Smoke,
Minutemen,
The Human League,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Piero Umiliani,
Eric Dolphy,
Arcadia,
The Standells,
Echospace,
The Music Machine,
Underground Resistance,
The Fugs,
John Holt,
Nas,
Warren Ellis,
Mantronix,
Schoolly D,
Judy Mowatt,
Susan Cadogan,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Bush Tetras,
Amazonics,
The Dead C,
Lonnie Liston Smith, Lonnie Liston Smith, Lonnie Liston Smith, Lonnie Liston Smith.
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.