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 Togo and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Neu! to the rock 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 Yellowson. All the underground hits.
All The Doors tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Heaven 17 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 linndrum and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Adolescents,
Nik Kershaw,
Charles Mingus,
Lalann,
Minutemen,
Camberwell Now,
Rotary Connection,
The Skatalites,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Radiohead,
The Fugs,
Second Layer,
Sixth Finger,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Sisters of Mercy,
The Litter,
Slick Rick,
Symarip,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Yazoo,
Faust,
Man Eating Sloth,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Derrick May,
Thee Headcoats,
Stockholm Monsters,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Eli Mardock,
Zero Boys,
Terrestrial Tones,
Massinfluence,
Average White Band,
Can,
Skriet,
Susan Cadogan,
R.M.O.,
Cal Tjader,
Bobby Sherman,
Barclay James Harvest,
Barry Ungar,
Simply Red,
Laurel Aitken,
Youth Brigade,
Throbbing Gristle,
Spoonie Gee,
Au Pairs,
Quando Quango,
Sexual Harrassment,
Donny Hathaway,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Colin Newman,
Lalo Schifrin,
The New Christs,
Joyce Sims,
Sex Pistols,
L. Decosne,
Quantec,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Neon Judgement, The Neon Judgement, The Neon Judgement, The Neon Judgement.
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.