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 Denmark and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 chamberlin 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 Kenny Larkin to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Arthur Verocai. All the underground hits.
All Mo-Dettes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mo-Dettes 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jerry Gold Smith 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?
Hasil Adkins,
MDC,
The Fall,
Joey Negro,
Michelle Simonal,
Guru Guru,
Technova,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
10cc,
Howard Jones,
Moby Grape,
R.M.O.,
Depeche Mode,
Bush Tetras,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Five Americans,
Public Image Ltd.,
Pantaleimon,
Main Source,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Index,
Cymande,
Black Bananas,
Fat Boys,
Flash Fearless,
Crispy Ambulance,
Ornette Coleman,
Erykah Badu,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Panda Bear,
Average White Band,
Eve St. Jones,
Lou Christie,
Babytalk,
Lungfish,
Gichy Dan,
John Cale,
Tommy Roe,
Bauhaus,
Joe Finger,
Todd Terry,
Jeru the Damaja,
Ice-T,
Lebanon Hanover,
Carl Craig,
Juan Atkins,
Dennis Brown,
Spandau Ballet,
Thompson Twins,
the Association,
Intrusion,
Yazoo,
The Techniques,
Erasure,
The Misunderstood,
The Doobie Brothers,
Das Ding,
Pulsallama,
The Victims,
Harmonia, Harmonia, Harmonia, Harmonia.
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.