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 Mauritius and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1968 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Sonic Youth to the crunk 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 Jandek. All the underground hits.
All D'Angelo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rekid 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Mandrill record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sun Ra,
Desert Stars,
Bizarre Inc.,
Ponytail,
Scratch Acid,
Mission of Burma,
Josef K,
Black Moon,
Sällskapet,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Marmalade,
H. Thieme,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Rites of Spring,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
ABC,
The Vogues,
Terrestrial Tones,
10cc,
K-Klass,
Funky Four + One,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Sun City Girls,
Scott Walker,
Ohio Players,
Deadbeat,
Sarah Menescal,
The Happenings,
Franke,
Rhythm & Sound,
Arcadia,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Babytalk,
Television Personalities,
Brick,
Pole,
Lungfish,
Sandy B,
Flash Fearless,
The Last Poets,
Joensuu 1685,
Don Cherry,
Goldenarms,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Panda Bear,
Soul Sonic Force,
These Immortal Souls,
Hot Snakes,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Real Kids,
Inner City,
Motorama,
Eli Mardock,
Dawn Penn,
Nik Kershaw,
Outsiders,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Smiths,
L. Decosne,
Stereo Dub,
The Mojo Men, The Mojo Men, The Mojo Men, The Mojo Men.
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.