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 Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1966 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 Tom Verlaine 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 MC5 to the rap 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 Davy DMX. All the underground hits.
All Metal Thangz tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Peter and Kerry 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 '80s 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 Black Pus record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ 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?
Blancmange,
Harmonia,
Idris Muhammad,
Drive Like Jehu,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Zeros,
the Association,
Arcadia,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Zero Boys,
Girls At Our Best!,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Negative Approach,
Pet Shop Boys,
Altered Images,
Amazonics,
The Mojo Men,
Au Pairs,
The Music Machine,
Derrick May,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Royal Trux,
The Trojans,
D'Angelo,
Lucky Dragons,
Eric Dolphy,
Cecil Taylor,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Crispy Ambulance,
Rapeman,
Neu!,
The Shadows of Knight,
Rhythm & Sound,
Pole,
Minor Threat,
Marmalade,
The Gories,
Monks,
Youth Brigade,
Animal Collective,
The Leaves,
Sun City Girls,
John Lydon,
Kenny Larkin,
The Monks,
Quadrant,
Gerry Rafferty,
Robert Görl,
DJ Style,
Stockholm Monsters,
Erasure,
OOIOO,
Shuggie Otis,
Lalo Schifrin,
Sam Rivers,
Matthew Bourne,
Bobby Byrd,
Underground Resistance,
Faust,
Urselle,
Letta Mbulu,
Sly & The Family Stone, Sly & The Family Stone, Sly & The Family Stone, Sly & The Family Stone.
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.