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 Israel and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 808 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 Bill Near to the disco 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 The Busters. All the underground hits.
All Bob Dylan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every MDC record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 snare and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lizzy Mercier Descloux record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Moebius,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Durutti Column,
The Motions,
Bobby Byrd,
The Moleskins,
Cecil Taylor,
Jeru the Damaja,
Boogie Down Productions,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
MC5,
Throbbing Gristle,
Urselle,
China Crisis,
Au Pairs,
ABBA,
The Offenders,
Rakim,
Half Japanese,
Swell Maps,
John Foxx,
Jerry Gold Smith,
It's A Beautiful Day,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Hardrive,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Deakin,
Deadbeat,
Groovy Waters,
Quando Quango,
Morten Harket,
The Fuzztones,
Jacob Miller,
Delon & Dalcan,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Mo-Dettes,
Glenn Branca,
Man Eating Sloth,
Marc Almond,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Ten City,
Altered Images,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Ituana,
Popol Vuh,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Smoke,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Black Dice,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Mojo Men,
Barrington Levy,
The Buckinghams,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Section 25,
Lalann,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Colin Newman,
One Last Wish,
Brass Construction,
Gong,
Monks,
The Moody Blues,
Main Source, Main Source, Main Source, Main Source.
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.