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 Panama and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1964 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Yaz to the rock kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 B.T. Express. All the underground hits.
All Country Teasers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bill Near 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Maleditus Sound record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Slackers,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Alice Coltrane,
Sällskapet,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
AZ,
Ossler,
Blancmange,
Lightning Bolt,
Q65,
Zapp,
Y Pants,
The Toasters,
Davy DMX,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Todd Terry,
Sight & Sound,
Smog,
Supertramp,
Derrick May,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Cluster,
Byron Stingily,
Dave Gahan,
Roxette,
the Soft Cell,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Moody Blues,
The Durutti Column,
Fear,
the Sonics,
The Sonics,
Don Cherry,
Curtis Mayfield,
PIL,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Brass Construction,
Bang On A Can,
Funkadelic,
Hoover,
Cheater Slicks,
Negative Approach,
The Blackbyrds,
Sexual Harrassment,
Jeff Mills,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Surgeon,
One Last Wish,
Sound Behaviour,
Camberwell Now,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
John Coltrane,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Jeff Lynne,
Wolf Eyes,
Brick,
The Pretty Things,
Severed Heads,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Sound,
Accadde A,
Goldenarms, Goldenarms, Goldenarms, Goldenarms.
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.