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 Azerbaijan and from Hong Kong.
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 1966 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 F. McDonald to the dance 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 Oneida. All the underground hits.
All The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Reagan Youth record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Harpers Bizarre record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Standells,
The Associates,
kango's stein massive,
Kurtis Blow,
L. Decosne,
Oneida,
Smog,
Mary Jane Girls,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The Monochrome Set,
The Sound,
Scrapy,
Michelle Simonal,
Pantytec,
Interpol,
the Swans,
Barry Ungar,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
the Slits,
Brand Nubian,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Trumans Water,
Minor Threat,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Grey Daturas,
Royal Trux,
David Axelrod,
The Trojans,
Excepter,
James White and The Blacks,
Ultimate Spinach,
Ice-T,
Bobby Byrd,
Minnie Riperton,
48th St. Collective,
Jesper Dahlback,
Half Japanese,
Kevin Saunderson,
Ludus,
Young Marble Giants,
Khruangbin,
Fluxion,
Quadrant,
Todd Terry,
Boogie Down Productions,
Bronski Beat,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Man Parrish,
Bauhaus,
Eddi Front,
Spoonie Gee,
Radiopuhelimet,
Joey Negro,
Susan Cadogan,
The Angels of Light,
Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci.
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.