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 Macedonia and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1962 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 marimba 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 Von Mondo to the punk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 PIL. All the underground hits.
All Quantec tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every EPMD record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Star Department record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Matthew Halsall,
Marshall Jefferson,
DJ Sneak,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Cure,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Organ,
Rotary Connection,
Hot Snakes,
Pet Shop Boys,
Slick Rick,
The New Christs,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Unwound,
Albert Ayler,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Japan,
Faraquet,
The Sonics,
Ludus,
Eli Mardock,
Wolf Eyes,
The Fuzztones,
Absolute Body Control,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Sister Nancy,
Youth Brigade,
The Raincoats,
Jeff Mills,
Unrelated Segments,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Jimmy McGriff,
June of 44,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Sun City Girls,
Animal Collective,
The Dirtbombs,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Intrusion,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Ituana,
June Days,
Von Mondo,
Marvin Gaye,
The Smiths,
The Wake,
Bill Near,
Clear Light,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Half Japanese,
Rhythm & Sound,
Popol Vuh,
Skriet,
Theoretical Girls,
Lou Christie,
Hardrive,
Eric Copeland,
Aswad,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Eurythmics,
Wire, Wire, Wire, Wire.
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.