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 Germany and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 1968 at the first Can practice in a loft in Cologne.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 Tears for Fears 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 Scan 7. All the underground hits.
All Jeru the Damaja tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every 8 Eyed Spy record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a New Order record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Names,
Girls At Our Best!,
Joe Finger,
The Durutti Column,
The Music Machine,
The Offenders,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Misunderstood,
The Smiths,
Rapeman,
Roger Hodgson,
Black Sheep,
Fela Kuti,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Echospace,
D'Angelo,
The Cure,
Toni Rubio,
The Raincoats,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Marshall Jefferson,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Stockholm Monsters,
Joey Negro,
Cybotron,
Cymande,
Bob Dylan,
Eric Copeland,
The Angels of Light,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Fuzztones,
Soft Cell,
Kas Product,
Pere Ubu,
Swell Maps,
Icehouse,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
New Age Steppers,
Anthony Braxton,
The Moody Blues,
John Foxx,
Ronan,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Blake Baxter,
The Fugs,
Brand Nubian,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Symarip,
Bobby Womack,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Reagan Youth,
The Stooges,
Rufus Thomas,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.