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 Ecuador and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 chamberlin 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 Half Japanese to the dance kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Talk Talk. All the underground hits.
All Half Japanese tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ossler 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Michelle Simonal record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Michelle Simonal,
Silicon Teens,
The Fugs,
Motorama,
Crispian St. Peters,
Jawbox,
Grauzone,
Bang On A Can,
Bobby Sherman,
Kerri Chandler,
Yaz,
Ice-T,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Zeros,
Saccharine Trust,
Bobby Womack,
Hasil Adkins,
Gil Scott Heron,
Jeru the Damaja,
Ronan,
Arcadia,
Curtis Mayfield,
Kayak,
Wings,
Eden Ahbez,
Connie Case,
Lakeside,
8 Eyed Spy,
Sixth Finger,
PIL,
Crash Course in Science,
Intrusion,
Erasure,
Severed Heads,
John Coltrane,
the Germs,
Tres Demented,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Ludus,
X-102,
Ponytail,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Loose Ends,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Ossler,
Brick,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Gichy Dan,
Sight & Sound,
The Slits,
DJ Sneak,
Jeff Mills,
Tom Boy,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Jeff Lynne,
Thompson Twins,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Five Americans, The Five Americans, The Five Americans, The Five Americans.
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.