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 Burkina and from Bremen.
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 1968 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 1976 at the first Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Skaos to the punk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Kevin Saunderson. All the underground hits.
All Grauzone tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Matthew Bourne 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter and Kerry record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Mo-Dettes,
Half Japanese,
Khruangbin,
Guru Guru,
Moby Grape,
Bluetip,
Audionom,
John Holt,
Dennis Brown,
The Move,
Von Mondo,
The Last Poets,
Mandrill,
Rakim,
Pantaleimon,
Chrome,
Masters at Work,
The Misunderstood,
Lungfish,
Hardrive,
ABBA,
the Human League,
Kool Moe Dee,
Talk Talk,
Liliput,
Blancmange,
Swell Maps,
Newcleus,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Barbara Tucker,
Roger Hodgson,
Monolake,
Royal Trux,
Icehouse,
E-Dancer,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The Barracudas,
Chris & Cosey,
Rites of Spring,
Tubeway Army,
Rod Modell,
Suicide,
The Shadows of Knight,
Ituana,
Kurtis Blow,
Leonard Cohen,
LL Cool J,
The Neon Judgement,
Little Man,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Japan,
L. Decosne,
Kayak,
The Martian,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
In Retrospect,
Interpol,
Bad Manners,
The Seeds,
Jeff Mills,
Vladislav Delay, Vladislav Delay, Vladislav Delay, Vladislav Delay.
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.