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 Eritrea and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1962 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 1976 at the first Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Gang Gang Dance to the techno kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Rakim. All the underground hits.
All Morten Harket tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Hashim 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joensuu 1685 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Excepter,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Ponytail,
Gregory Isaacs,
Ornette Coleman,
F. McDonald,
The Gun Club,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
The Young Rascals,
The Techniques,
Jandek,
Moss Icon,
Anthony Braxton,
Morten Harket,
Organ,
Half Japanese,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Fear,
Aaron Thompson,
PIL,
Joe Finger,
Byron Stingily,
Nas,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Fuzztones,
Tubeway Army,
Altered Images,
Niagra,
Ludus,
Alison Limerick,
KRS-One,
Althea and Donna,
Sugar Minott,
Severed Heads,
Rapeman,
Harmonia,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Hoover,
Black Sheep,
Rakim,
Frankie Knuckles,
New Age Steppers,
The Fortunes,
Crispy Ambulance,
Arcadia,
The Human League,
Piero Umiliani,
Scratch Acid,
Dennis Brown,
Toni Rubio,
kango's stein massive,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Grey Daturas,
Panda Bear,
Magma,
The Divine Comedy,
Rufus Thomas,
Marc Almond,
Make Up,
The Searchers,
Junior Murvin,
The Associates,
The Pretty Things, The Pretty Things, The Pretty Things, The Pretty Things.
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.