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 Canada and from London.
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 1969 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Mumbai.
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 theremin 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 Ponytail 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 Cal Tjader. All the underground hits.
All Tropical Tobacco tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bobby Byrd 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Delta 5 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jacob Miller,
The Vogues,
Reagan Youth,
Make Up,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Marmalade,
LL Cool J,
MC5,
Graham Central Station,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Television Personalities,
Amon Düül,
Kerrie Biddell,
Cluster,
The Golliwogs,
Hashim,
Pet Shop Boys,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Slits,
Groovy Waters,
One Last Wish,
Eric Copeland,
Tubeway Army,
Public Image Ltd.,
Derrick May,
Delon & Dalcan,
Pantytec,
Basic Channel,
CMW,
Bizarre Inc.,
Jimmy McGriff,
Newcleus,
Thompson Twins,
John Lydon,
Bob Dylan,
The Fall,
Ken Boothe,
Lee Hazlewood,
Lou Christie,
Trumans Water,
The Last Poets,
Intrusion,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Lyres,
Mandrill,
Kenny Larkin,
New Age Steppers,
Popol Vuh,
The Mojo Men,
Panda Bear,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Kayak,
Los Fastidios,
Sam Rivers,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Buzzcocks,
This Heat,
Q65,
The Wake,
Leonard Cohen,
Chris & Cosey,
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.