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 Seychelles and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1967 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Moon to the jazz 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 Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane. All the underground hits.
All Bizarre Inc. tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Cowsills 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Beasts of Bourbon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Erykah Badu,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Black Dice,
Joey Negro,
Iggy Pop,
Black Bananas,
Brass Construction,
New Order,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Joe Smooth,
Eve St. Jones,
Jerry's Kids,
E-Dancer,
Fad Gadget,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Trumans Water,
Toni Rubio,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
In Retrospect,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Drive Like Jehu,
Flipper,
The Angels of Light,
Gabor Szabo,
Bob Dylan,
The Remains,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
JFA,
The Raincoats,
Malaria!,
Section 25,
Japan,
Alton Ellis,
Average White Band,
Joensuu 1685,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Monochrome Set,
Saccharine Trust,
The Slackers,
Rod Modell,
the Normal,
Nik Kershaw,
Spandau Ballet,
Ice-T,
Fatback Band,
Marc Almond,
Simply Red,
John Cale,
The Invisible,
June Days,
Lucky Dragons,
Animal Collective,
Blossom Toes,
Byron Stingily,
Barclay James Harvest,
Bauhaus,
Mantronix,
Camouflage,
The Neon Judgement,
The United States of America,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Jandek,
Arthur Verocai, Arthur Verocai, Arthur Verocai, Arthur Verocai.
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.