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 Lesotho and from Shanghai.
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 1964 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 mellotron 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 Cheater Slicks to the punk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Rekid. All the underground hits.
All Rufus Thomas tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Traffic Nightmare record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 synthesizer and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Arthur Verocai 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?
Alton Ellis,
Junior Murvin,
Grey Daturas,
Barrington Levy,
PIL,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Soft Cell,
Scan 7,
Gong,
Neil Young,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Pretty Things,
The Beau Brummels,
Reagan Youth,
Kaleidoscope,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Modern Lovers,
Sight & Sound,
Arthur Verocai,
Neu!,
The Shadows of Knight,
Patti Smith,
Negative Approach,
The Alarm Clocks,
Gang of Four,
Cheater Slicks,
Skriet,
Ultimate Spinach,
Monolake,
Technova,
Talk Talk,
Scott Walker,
The United States of America,
Heaven 17,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Quando Quango,
Yellowson,
Derrick May,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Unwound,
MDC,
Flipper,
Pierre Henry,
Lakeside,
The Monochrome Set,
Hardrive,
Black Pus,
Byron Stingily,
Jacques Brel,
Crime,
Erykah Badu,
The Misunderstood,
Rotary Connection,
Model 500,
Tres Demented,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Janne Schatter,
Isaac Hayes,
Can, Can, Can, Can.
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.