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 India 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 1966 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the theremin 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 Magazine to the funk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Eli Mardock. All the underground hits.
All Alton Ellis tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Au Pairs record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Supertramp record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Divine Comedy,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Guru Guru,
Soft Machine,
Thee Headcoats,
Deepchord,
The Invisible,
Kayak,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Cal Tjader,
DJ Sneak,
Swans,
Nik Kershaw,
Sonny Sharrock,
Adolescents,
Stockholm Monsters,
kango's stein massive,
Wings,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Eden Ahbez,
Quadrant,
Negative Approach,
Gichy Dan,
The Slackers,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Underground Resistance,
Neu!,
Minny Pops,
Jimmy McGriff,
Animal Collective,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Delon & Dalcan,
Lou Reed,
Roy Ayers,
Aaron Thompson,
Fugazi,
Grauzone,
Tim Buckley,
Max Romeo,
PIL,
Nas,
Faraquet,
The Cramps,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Funkadelic,
The Grass Roots,
Terrestrial Tones,
Suburban Knight,
The Blackbyrds,
Rapeman,
The Electric Prunes,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Qualms,
Pet Shop Boys,
Kas Product,
Pulsallama,
Glenn Branca, Glenn Branca, Glenn Branca, Glenn Branca.
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.