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 Macedonia and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 rhodes 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 Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch to the rap kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Aural Exciters. All the underground hits.
All Deakin tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Magma record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 spring reverb and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Janne Schatter record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Wolf Eyes,
Rites of Spring,
Sonic Youth,
Roy Ayers,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Subhumans,
Ice-T,
Japan,
Make Up,
Minny Pops,
John Coltrane,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
John Foxx,
Hasil Adkins,
The Mummies,
Ossler,
U.S. Maple,
Whodini,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Excepter,
The Tremeloes,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Shuggie Otis,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Essential Logic,
Average White Band,
The Gories,
Half Japanese,
Livin' Joy,
Bobby Womack,
Sparks,
Pierre Henry,
Skaos,
Unwound,
Janne Schatter,
Lou Reed,
Mary Jane Girls,
Andrew Hill,
Pantaleimon,
Vainqueur,
Mission of Burma,
The Stooges,
Johnny Osbourne,
Bauhaus,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Deadbeat,
Symarip,
Kenny Larkin,
Sam Rivers,
Bronski Beat,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Urselle,
The Star Department,
Skriet,
Lower 48,
Little Man,
John Cale,
The Dirtbombs,
Glambeats Corp., Glambeats Corp., Glambeats Corp., Glambeats Corp..
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.