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 Poland and from Paris.
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 1960 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Stockholm.
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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Black Sheep to the rap kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Camberwell Now. All the underground hits.
All The Fall tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Stereo Dub 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 linndrum and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jeff Mills record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sarah Menescal,
The Dead C,
FM Einheit,
James White and The Blacks,
Letta Mbulu,
Marshall Jefferson,
CMW,
Big Daddy Kane,
Minnie Riperton,
Johnny Osbourne,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Motions,
Bluetip,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Qualms,
Rites of Spring,
Sight & Sound,
Wings,
The Neon Judgement,
Average White Band,
Organ,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Moleskins,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Nik Kershaw,
Television Personalities,
Young Marble Giants,
Excepter,
David McCallum,
Massinfluence,
Scott Walker,
Can,
Lower 48,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Detroit Cobras,
Lou Christie,
Aloha Tigers,
Unwound,
Yusef Lateef,
Bauhaus,
The Cowsills,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Sparks,
Drive Like Jehu,
Toni Rubio,
Kevin Saunderson,
Mantronix,
The Blackbyrds,
Supertramp,
Audionom,
The Toasters,
La Düsseldorf,
Isaac Hayes,
Ossler,
Eurythmics,
Warsaw,
Funkadelic,
Joey Negro,
Underground Resistance, Underground Resistance, Underground Resistance, Underground Resistance.
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.