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 Nicaragua and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 1971 at the first Neu! practice in a loft in Düsseldorf.
I was working on the marimba 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 Dual Sessions to the grime kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Darondo. All the underground hits.
All Jeff Lynne tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Television record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Aaron Thompson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Motions,
The Sonics,
Vladislav Delay,
Ultra Naté,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Mary Jane Girls,
Scan 7,
Bluetip,
Negative Approach,
Essential Logic,
Deepchord,
Robert Wyatt,
Pierre Henry,
Roger Hodgson,
Bizarre Inc.,
a-ha,
The Kinks,
Underground Resistance,
Minor Threat,
The Leaves,
Lakeside,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Fad Gadget,
Connie Case,
Althea and Donna,
Matthew Halsall,
Panda Bear,
MC5,
Wolf Eyes,
Technova,
Pet Shop Boys,
Angry Samoans,
Monolake,
The Fall,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Bobby Womack,
Wasted Youth,
Eric Copeland,
Barrington Levy,
The Flesh Eaters,
Depeche Mode,
Minnie Riperton,
Lou Christie,
Echospace,
The Searchers,
Stetsasonic,
Arthur Verocai,
Bad Manners,
10cc,
Unrelated Segments,
Marine Girls,
Pagans,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Albert Ayler,
Funky Four + One,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Raincoats,
Glambeats Corp.,
Prince Buster,
Marshall Jefferson,
Gregory Isaacs,
Ronan, Ronan, Ronan, Ronan.
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.