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 Antigua and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1968 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Subhumans to the rap 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 Mandrill. All the underground hits.
All Little Man tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Arcadia 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ponytail record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sly & The Family Stone,
Cal Tjader,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Jacob Miller,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Kerri Chandler,
Letta Mbulu,
Bizarre Inc.,
James Chance & The Contortions,
One Last Wish,
Arab on Radar,
Roy Ayers,
Curtis Mayfield,
cv313,
Moebius,
The Sound,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Golliwogs,
Marmalade,
Soulsonic Force,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Jawbox,
Unwound,
The Blues Magoos,
The Shadows of Knight,
Crash Course in Science,
Infiniti,
Suicide,
Circle Jerks,
The Buckinghams,
Swans,
Kevin Saunderson,
Panda Bear,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Marc Almond,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Jeru the Damaja,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Drexciya,
Frankie Knuckles,
Gerry Rafferty,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Bill Wells,
The Remains,
Brass Construction,
E-Dancer,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Sarah Menescal,
Traffic Nightmare,
Pere Ubu,
The Happenings,
JFA,
Depeche Mode,
Darondo,
Swell Maps,
Interpol,
Mary Jane Girls,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Aswad,
The Standells,
Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci.
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.