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 Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the organ 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 Das Ding to the rap kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Au Pairs. All the underground hits.
All Faust tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Grauzone record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 an organ and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Slits record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
UT,
The Martian,
Vladislav Delay,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Liliput,
The J.B.'s,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Sound,
Aloha Tigers,
Pagans,
Deadbeat,
The Selecter,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Rakim,
The Kinks,
Electric Prunes,
Black Bananas,
The Black Dice,
Josef K,
Dave Gahan,
The Residents,
JFA,
DJ Style,
The Detroit Cobras,
Agitation Free,
Can,
James Chance & The Contortions,
X-Ray Spex,
The Red Krayola,
Panda Bear,
Bush Tetras,
Angry Samoans,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Pretty Things,
The Gap Band,
Delta 5,
Supertramp,
the Germs,
Delon & Dalcan,
John Holt,
AZ,
Funky Four + One,
Pierre Henry,
Kas Product,
Oblivians,
Derrick May,
Slave,
Arab on Radar,
The Barracudas,
New Age Steppers,
Anakelly,
The Durutti Column,
Y Pants,
Drexciya,
Fear,
The Skatalites,
Hoover,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Gang Green,
Pantaleimon,
Sun City Girls,
Marine Girls,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Outsiders, Outsiders, Outsiders, Outsiders.
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.