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 Vietnam and from Delhi.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 John Holt to the grime kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 The Raincoats. All the underground hits.
All Absolute Body Control tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lyres record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Japan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Half Japanese,
Derrick May,
The Gap Band,
Oblivians,
Gabor Szabo,
John Foxx,
Groovy Waters,
Ossler,
Audionom,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Agitation Free,
Skaos,
Y Pants,
Ken Boothe,
Flash Fearless,
Slick Rick,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Ornette Coleman,
Ronnie Foster,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Moby Grape,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Barracudas,
Barrington Levy,
Pulsallama,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Fugazi,
the Swans,
Joey Negro,
Camberwell Now,
Interpol,
New York Dolls,
Man Eating Sloth,
John Lydon,
The Alarm Clocks,
Jawbox,
Panda Bear,
a-ha,
The J.B.'s,
The American Breed,
The New Christs,
Anakelly,
Sam Rivers,
Royal Trux,
Bush Tetras,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Kerri Chandler,
Silicon Teens,
Tears for Fears,
Ten City,
Cybotron,
The Stooges,
Althea and Donna,
the Slits,
Alphaville,
New Age Steppers,
Ralphi Rosario,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Ultra Naté, Ultra Naté, Ultra Naté, Ultra Naté.
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.