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 Panama and from Lille.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Swans to the rock kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Fluxion. All the underground hits.
All Nils Olav tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lungfish 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Procol Harum record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Neon Judgement,
Idris Muhammad,
The Birthday Party,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Move,
China Crisis,
James White and The Blacks,
The Walker Brothers,
The Vogues,
Radiopuhelimet,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
La Düsseldorf,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Niagra,
Matthew Bourne,
Animal Collective,
Althea and Donna,
Mantronix,
Pharoah Sanders,
Banda Bassotti,
The Human League,
The Leaves,
Kayak,
Sexual Harrassment,
Cecil Taylor,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Black Moon,
Hasil Adkins,
Schoolly D,
Hoover,
Faust,
Surgeon,
The Detroit Cobras,
Lalo Schifrin,
Bobby Byrd,
Iggy Pop,
The Litter,
Gastr Del Sol,
Morten Harket,
Unrelated Segments,
10cc,
The Moody Blues,
The Fuzztones,
Sarah Menescal,
Japan,
Don Cherry,
Blossom Toes,
Pole,
The Monks,
Harry Pussy,
Circle Jerks,
Albert Ayler,
Chris & Cosey,
Fatback Band,
The Wake,
Leonard Cohen,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Los Fastidios,
Amazonics,
U.S. Maple,
Junior Murvin, Junior Murvin, Junior Murvin, Junior Murvin.
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.