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 Ireland and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1966 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Ossler to the electroclash 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 Slave. All the underground hits.
All Althea and Donna tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Isaac Hayes record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Aaron Thompson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Delon & Dalcan,
Make Up,
Surgeon,
Fugazi,
cv313,
Funky Four + One,
Pierre Henry,
Jesper Dahlback,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
James White and The Blacks,
Arab on Radar,
the Germs,
La Düsseldorf,
Motorama,
Tears for Fears,
Visage,
DNA,
Los Fastidios,
Aswad,
Skarface,
Grauzone,
Organ,
Warren Ellis,
The Zeros,
Aloha Tigers,
Sister Nancy,
Neu!,
Maleditus Sound,
Moss Icon,
Gastr Del Sol,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Dorothy Ashby,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
The Modern Lovers,
the Soft Cell,
Alton Ellis,
Oneida,
The Seeds,
Panda Bear,
Kaleidoscope,
Lightning Bolt,
Pulsallama,
Magazine,
the Sonics,
Radiohead,
The United States of America,
Eric Dolphy,
New Age Steppers,
Rapeman,
Tommy Roe,
Funkadelic,
Traffic Nightmare,
Das Ding,
Amon Düül,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Pussy Galore,
Desert Stars,
L. Decosne,
Anakelly,
Flipper,
Alphaville,
Television Personalities, Television Personalities, Television Personalities, Television Personalities.
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.