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 Austria and from Philadelphia.
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 1969 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Selector Dub Narcotic to the grime kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Funkadelic. All the underground hits.
All Magazine tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rosa Yemen record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Human League record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rod Modell,
Ludus,
The Doors,
Joensuu 1685,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
the Swans,
Sonny Sharrock,
Eurythmics,
FM Einheit,
Motorama,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Wire,
The Flesh Eaters,
Eric Copeland,
Archie Shepp,
Grey Daturas,
DJ Sneak,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Hot Snakes,
Bill Near,
Funky Four + One,
Groovy Waters,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Five Americans,
Section 25,
Heaven 17,
The Modern Lovers,
Easy Going,
The Gladiators,
Echospace,
Avey Tare,
Grauzone,
Kerrie Biddell,
Electric Prunes,
Fear,
Anthony Braxton,
Pantytec,
E-Dancer,
8 Eyed Spy,
Urselle,
Schoolly D,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Colin Newman,
Pantaleimon,
Moss Icon,
The Cure,
Negative Approach,
Danielle Patucci,
Blancmange,
Q and Not U,
Ituana,
Joe Finger,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Grandmaster Flash,
Boredoms,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Mary Jane Girls,
L. Decosne,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Warren Ellis,
Average White Band,
The Vogues,
Loose Ends, Loose Ends, Loose Ends, Loose Ends.
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.