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 Mexico and from Columbus.
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 1966 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 clarinet 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 a-ha to the punk 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 Morten Harket. All the underground hits.
All The Move tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sonic Youth 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 linndrum and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Juan Atkins,
Kaleidoscope,
Gerry Rafferty,
Suburban Knight,
Ornette Coleman,
The Dead C,
Bad Manners,
The Seeds,
Cecil Taylor,
Ultravox,
Sexual Harrassment,
Depeche Mode,
Skarface,
The Associates,
The Wake,
The Mummies,
Radiopuhelimet,
Anthony Braxton,
The Gladiators,
Donny Hathaway,
Ultimate Spinach,
Pere Ubu,
Kerri Chandler,
Scan 7,
Connie Case,
Subhumans,
H. Thieme,
Shuggie Otis,
The Dirtbombs,
Blancmange,
The Smoke,
Gastr Del Sol,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Moss Icon,
Scion,
The Shadows of Knight,
Unwound,
Audionom,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Organ,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Brand Nubian,
Arthur Verocai,
E-Dancer,
Maurizio,
Fluxion,
The Busters,
Derrick Morgan,
the Sonics,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
the Association,
Japan,
Henry Cow,
Schoolly D,
Amazonics,
Robert Wyatt,
Crooked Eye,
Au Pairs,
Erykah Badu,
X-Ray Spex,
Junior Murvin,
The Velvet Underground,
The Zeros,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo, Kool G Rap & DJ Polo, Kool G Rap & DJ Polo, Kool G Rap & DJ Polo.
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.