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 Benin and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage 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 1963 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 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 Technova to the rock kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Bob Dylan. All the underground hits.
All Funkadelic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jawbox 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pantaleimon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Black Pus,
The Sound,
Cheater Slicks,
Howard Jones,
OOIOO,
Fela Kuti,
Kas Product,
Scott Walker,
Massinfluence,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
MC5,
K-Klass,
Anthony Braxton,
Deepchord,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
The Misunderstood,
Soft Machine,
Silicon Teens,
The Moody Blues,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Eric Copeland,
Public Image Ltd.,
Minnie Riperton,
Pierre Henry,
Prince Buster,
Kenny Larkin,
Crispian St. Peters,
New Age Steppers,
Jimmy McGriff,
Newcleus,
Throbbing Gristle,
Masters at Work,
Pulsallama,
The Victims,
New York Dolls,
Reuben Wilson,
EPMD,
Joy Division,
The Searchers,
The Evens,
Ronnie Foster,
Vladislav Delay,
Alton Ellis,
Spoonie Gee,
Rapeman,
Carl Craig,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Skatalites,
Davy DMX,
Make Up,
Radiohead,
Lebanon Hanover,
Rufus Thomas,
The Doors,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Gang Starr,
Bang On A Can,
Alphaville,
Letta Mbulu,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
The Cramps,
Dual Sessions, Dual Sessions, Dual Sessions, Dual Sessions.
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.