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 Ireland and from Glasgow.
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 1966 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Jeff Mills to the grunge kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Carl Craig. All the underground hits.
All Archie Shepp tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Notorious Big And Bone Thugs record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Swans record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sun Ra Arkestra,
K-Klass,
Letta Mbulu,
Grauzone,
Kerri Chandler,
Hardrive,
The Black Dice,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
David McCallum,
Derrick May,
Lalann,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Soul Sonic Force,
cv313,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Agitation Free,
Stereo Dub,
Kool Moe Dee,
Byron Stingily,
Circle Jerks,
The Moleskins,
Terry Callier,
Marvin Gaye,
Young Marble Giants,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
FM Einheit,
Marine Girls,
Section 25,
Surgeon,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Adolescents,
The Young Rascals,
X-101,
Matthew Bourne,
Fluxion,
Au Pairs,
Buzzcocks,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Unrelated Segments,
Bootsy Collins,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Ultra Naté,
Kurtis Blow,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Ornette Coleman,
Barrington Levy,
Soul II Soul,
U.S. Maple,
The Neon Judgement,
Althea and Donna,
Jesper Dahlback,
Goldenarms,
Skaos,
Japan,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Reagan Youth,
The Angels of Light,
Aswad,
Sound Behaviour,
H. Thieme,
Girls At Our Best!, Girls At Our Best!, Girls At Our Best!, Girls At Our Best!.
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.