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 Thailand and from Johannesburg.
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 1969 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Massinfluence to the punk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 The Five Americans. All the underground hits.
All Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pierre Henry 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 '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 The Sound record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Donald Byrd,
Lakeside,
Idris Muhammad,
Symarip,
Liliput,
U.S. Maple,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Lindisfarne,
LL Cool J,
Danielle Patucci,
The Mummies,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Traffic Nightmare,
Minnie Riperton,
Jacques Brel,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Saccharine Trust,
Matthew Halsall,
Interpol,
Nirvana,
Tears for Fears,
Trumans Water,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Chris Corsano,
Kas Product,
Mad Mike,
Jerry's Kids,
Todd Rundgren,
Bush Tetras,
Arcadia,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Bizarre Inc.,
X-Ray Spex,
Piero Umiliani,
Ten City,
Banda Bassotti,
Average White Band,
Flamin' Groovies,
Suicide,
Franke,
EPMD,
Frankie Knuckles,
ABC,
Gregory Isaacs,
Pulsallama,
New Age Steppers,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Joe Finger,
Aural Exciters,
Loose Ends,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Ralphi Rosario,
Colin Newman,
The Blues Magoos,
Carl Craig,
Joey Negro,
Jeff Mills,
Harpers Bizarre,
Rapeman,
The Barracudas,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam.
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.