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 Bosnia Herzegovina and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1961 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Sexual Harrassment to the disco kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Urselle. All the underground hits.
All Arcadia tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gerry Rafferty 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 güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Schoolly D,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Vladislav Delay,
Crooked Eye,
Livin' Joy,
Chris & Cosey,
PIL,
Hardrive,
The J.B.'s,
Morten Harket,
Altered Images,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Dave Gahan,
Deakin,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Crash Course in Science,
Joe Smooth,
Negative Approach,
Sonic Youth,
Franke,
Dual Sessions,
The Toasters,
Danielle Patucci,
Nick Fraelich,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
AZ,
Erasure,
Flash Fearless,
Bad Manners,
Erykah Badu,
Black Moon,
Tomorrow,
the Germs,
L. Decosne,
CMW,
ABC,
Reagan Youth,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Alarm Clocks,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Mantronix,
The Velvet Underground,
kango's stein massive,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Cal Tjader,
The Cure,
Tom Boy,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Slits,
Matthew Halsall,
Quando Quango,
Suburban Knight,
Donny Hathaway,
London Community Gospel Choir,
The Fire Engines,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Smiths,
Unwound,
The Selecter,
Wally Richardson,
Infiniti,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme, Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme, Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme, Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme.
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.