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 Korea North and from Milan.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 oboe 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 Vladislav Delay to the disco kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Smiths. All the underground hits.
All Qualms tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fela Kuti record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Leaves 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?
Moebius,
Unrelated Segments,
Gang of Four,
Kaleidoscope,
The Mojo Men,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
the Sonics,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Make Up,
Blancmange,
Reuben Wilson,
Neil Young,
Radio Birdman,
the Fania All-Stars,
Pantytec,
Eurythmics,
Quadrant,
The Dirtbombs,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Harmonia,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Sight & Sound,
Vainqueur,
Sun Ra,
Groovy Waters,
Derrick May,
Second Layer,
LL Cool J,
A Flock of Seagulls,
8 Eyed Spy,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Max Romeo,
U.S. Maple,
Ituana,
Mad Mike,
Jeff Mills,
The Sonics,
Tim Buckley,
Nik Kershaw,
The American Breed,
Scan 7,
The Raincoats,
Wings,
kango's stein massive,
Public Enemy,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Searchers,
Marcia Griffiths,
Pierre Henry,
The Gladiators,
OOIOO,
Fluxion,
Pole,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Move,
Matthew Halsall,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Associates,
Maleditus Sound,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Clear Light,
Carl Craig, Carl Craig, Carl Craig, Carl Craig.
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.