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 Comoros and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Jerry's Kids to the dance kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Pierre Henry. All the underground hits.
All The Smiths tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Derrick Morgan record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joensuu 1685 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Black Moon,
The Dirtbombs,
Kevin Saunderson,
Moby Grape,
Prince Buster,
Tom Boy,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Alphaville,
Matthew Halsall,
Donald Byrd,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Man Parrish,
The Monks,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Skriet,
Joy Division,
Camberwell Now,
Young Marble Giants,
Maleditus Sound,
The Fuzztones,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Youth Brigade,
June of 44,
Dorothy Ashby,
Roxy Music,
Lucky Dragons,
Sixth Finger,
Absolute Body Control,
Agitation Free,
Fugazi,
The Martian,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Barbara Tucker,
Stereo Dub,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Blake Baxter,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Oneida,
Parry Music,
Wire,
Joyce Sims,
Amon Düül,
CMW,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Desert Stars,
Alison Limerick,
Terry Callier,
Juan Atkins,
The Golliwogs,
Lee Hazlewood,
Lyres,
Morten Harket,
the Sonics,
The Walker Brothers,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
David Axelrod,
Vladislav Delay,
Toni Rubio,
The Doobie Brothers,
Magazine,
Ralphi Rosario,
Jerry's Kids,
Derrick May,
Lindisfarne, Lindisfarne, Lindisfarne, Lindisfarne.
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.