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 Andorra and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1961 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 A Flock of Seagulls. All the underground hits.
All DJ Style tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dawn Penn record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Magma record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Sexual Harrassment,
Moss Icon,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Selector Dub Narcotic,
The Monochrome Set,
Sex Pistols,
Bush Tetras,
Theoretical Girls,
the Slits,
Kool Moe Dee,
Aloha Tigers,
Prince Buster,
Hasil Adkins,
Interpol,
Ponytail,
Chris Corsano,
Eve St. Jones,
A Certain Ratio,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Funkadelic,
The Names,
The Human League,
The Trojans,
Hashim,
Unrelated Segments,
Unwound,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Susan Cadogan,
L. Decosne,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Dorothy Ashby,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Desert Stars,
Anakelly,
The Toasters,
The Electric Prunes,
H. Thieme,
The Slits,
Marmalade,
the Germs,
Niagra,
Janne Schatter,
Lou Reed,
Mantronix,
Freddie Wadling,
Joe Finger,
Tears for Fears,
Matthew Bourne,
Saccharine Trust,
Danielle Patucci,
Colin Newman,
Faust,
X-101,
Nick Fraelich, Nick Fraelich, Nick Fraelich, Nick Fraelich.
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.