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 Mauritania and from Philadelphia.
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 1968 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the snare 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 AZ to the dance kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Electric Prunes. All the underground hits.
All The Knickerbockers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every New Order record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 theremin and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Brick record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Altered Images,
the Normal,
The Moleskins,
Anthony Braxton,
Scott Walker,
The Pop Group,
Michelle Simonal,
U.S. Maple,
The Fugs,
The Gories,
The Monochrome Set,
Gastr Del Sol,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Heaven 17,
Buzzcocks,
Tears for Fears,
Adolescents,
The Electric Prunes,
Crispy Ambulance,
Yusef Lateef,
Alice Coltrane,
Drexciya,
ABC,
Sound Behaviour,
CMW,
Electric Prunes,
Black Flag,
Procol Harum,
Fluxion,
Vainqueur,
Flash Fearless,
Popol Vuh,
The Skatalites,
Sonny Sharrock,
Eddi Front,
Sällskapet,
Dark Day,
Wings,
the Germs,
Matthew Halsall,
The Selecter,
Bobby Sherman,
The Cure,
Joy Division,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Cymande,
Babytalk,
Underground Resistance,
Deepchord,
Intrusion,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Associates,
The Divine Comedy,
Easy Going,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Jacques Brel,
Danielle Patucci,
K-Klass,
The Sonics,
Rod Modell,
Eurythmics,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Sun Ra,
Warren Ellis, Warren Ellis, Warren Ellis, Warren Ellis.
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.