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 Israel and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia 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 1960 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 DJ Sneak to the electroclash kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 FM Einheit. All the underground hits.
All Eddi Front tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Soulsonic Force record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 rhodes and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Q65 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Television,
Trumans Water,
The Modern Lovers,
The Flesh Eaters,
Newcleus,
Suicide,
Royal Trux,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Accadde A,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Index,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Monolake,
Clear Light,
The Gun Club,
The Real Kids,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Ultimate Spinach,
Jerry's Kids,
Barclay James Harvest,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Rakim,
Zapp,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Derrick May,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Ken Boothe,
Yellowson,
Simply Red,
The Golliwogs,
Yazoo,
the Association,
Donny Hathaway,
The Moody Blues,
Eyeless In Gaza,
China Crisis,
Nirvana,
Gang Green,
LL Cool J,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Panda Bear,
the Germs,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Barracudas,
This Heat,
Chris & Cosey,
Neu!,
The Gap Band,
June of 44,
Tears for Fears,
Infiniti,
Radiohead,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Qualms,
Piero Umiliani,
Erasure,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
cv313,
Oblivians,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Ronnie Foster,
The Blues Magoos, The Blues Magoos, The Blues Magoos, The Blues Magoos.
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.