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 Comoros and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1967 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Siglo XX to the disco 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 Can. All the underground hits.
All New Order tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Josef K record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 theremin and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Happenings record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
X-Ray Spex,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Monochrome Set,
The Tremeloes,
Duran Duran,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Kaleidoscope,
Spoonie Gee,
Kayak,
Deepchord,
Procol Harum,
Swans,
Shuggie Otis,
Vainqueur,
Surgeon,
Pierre Henry,
The Names,
Malaria!,
Sam Rivers,
The Doobie Brothers,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Excepter,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Deadbeat,
Ice-T,
Clear Light,
E-Dancer,
Max Romeo,
Jerry's Kids,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Joensuu 1685,
Warsaw,
The Skatalites,
Matthew Halsall,
Derrick Morgan,
Faust,
Jeff Mills,
These Immortal Souls,
DJ Sneak,
Shoche,
Essential Logic,
Janne Schatter,
Gang Starr,
Harry Pussy,
Funky Four + One,
Zero Boys,
The Invisible,
The Zeros,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Silicon Teens,
The Smiths,
Man Eating Sloth,
Rekid,
Joy Division,
T.S.O.L.,
Kool Moe Dee,
Eric B and Rakim,
Au Pairs,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Supertramp,
Robert Görl, Robert Görl, Robert Görl, Robert Görl.
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.