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 Belgium and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 guitar 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 Monks to the electroclash 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 Magma. All the underground hits.
All Bootsy Collins tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Index record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 linndrum and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rotary Connection record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eddi Front,
Sight & Sound,
Outsiders,
Excepter,
A Certain Ratio,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Oneida,
The J.B.'s,
Don Cherry,
The Litter,
Section 25,
Ice-T,
Slick Rick,
Derrick Morgan,
Carl Craig,
Jawbox,
The Mojo Men,
The Blues Magoos,
Tubeway Army,
Agent Orange,
Zero Boys,
Average White Band,
Harmonia,
The Fire Engines,
Wire,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Buckinghams,
Radiopuhelimet,
Marine Girls,
Electric Prunes,
The Searchers,
Scion,
Arcadia,
Index,
Godley & Creme,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Subhumans,
Sound Behaviour,
China Crisis,
The Blackbyrds,
The Busters,
Rotary Connection,
Isaac Hayes,
Von Mondo,
The Cramps,
Andrew Hill,
kango's stein massive,
The Misunderstood,
Flipper,
Traffic Nightmare,
Black Moon,
Unwound,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Zapp,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Second Layer,
Gang of Four,
Bronski Beat,
Camberwell Now,
Qualms,
X-101, X-101, X-101, X-101.
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.