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 Cameroon and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Joensuu 1685 to the disco kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 The Cramps. All the underground hits.
All Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Severed Heads 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Monochrome Set record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Matthew Halsall,
Das Ding,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Last Poets,
Banda Bassotti,
The United States of America,
Connie Case,
Nils Olav,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Sixth Finger,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Grass Roots,
Sight & Sound,
Essential Logic,
Robert Görl,
Marc Almond,
Neu!,
Crooked Eye,
Junior Murvin,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Scientists,
Parry Music,
Dennis Brown,
Country Teasers,
Blancmange,
The Blues Magoos,
Henry Cow,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Erykah Badu,
These Immortal Souls,
Brass Construction,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Lakeside,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Severed Heads,
The Doobie Brothers,
KRS-One,
MC5,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Ludus,
Gang Starr,
Deepchord,
Section 25,
New Order,
JFA,
The Cure,
The Motions,
Amon Düül,
Index,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Lightning Bolt,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Motorama,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Qualms,
Arthur Verocai,
The Gap Band,
Lower 48,
Y Pants,
The J.B.'s,
Josef K, Josef K, Josef K, Josef K.
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.