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 Burkina and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise show in London.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 synthesizer 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 jazz kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Wire. All the underground hits.
All Kerri Chandler tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Cramps record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 marimba and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Red Krayola record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Spoonie Gee,
Scan 7,
Barrington Levy,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Monolake,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The American Breed,
The Leaves,
The Velvet Underground,
Essential Logic,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Johnny Osbourne,
Swell Maps,
Minor Threat,
Simply Red,
Aswad,
The Gladiators,
Agent Orange,
the Swans,
Motorama,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
David Bowie,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Schoolly D,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Lyres,
Nas,
The Standells,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Scrapy,
The Cure,
Eli Mardock,
Kerrie Biddell,
Amon Düül,
the Human League,
FM Einheit,
Accadde A,
Duran Duran,
The Buckinghams,
Franke,
Minutemen,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Magma,
Ludus,
Panda Bear,
Pantytec,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Matthew Bourne,
Arcadia,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Royal Trux,
The Slackers,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Bad Manners,
Blancmange,
John Foxx,
Echospace,
The Mummies,
The Alarm Clocks,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Associates, The Associates, The Associates, The Associates.
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.