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 Sudan and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 Delhi and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Deepchord to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Fluxion. All the underground hits.
All MDC tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pulsallama record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jerry Gold Smith record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Harmonia,
The Dead C,
Junior Murvin,
Brothers Johnson,
Roger Hodgson,
Kas Product,
The Zeros,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Hoover,
The Saints,
Bootsy Collins,
DNA,
The Standells,
Accadde A,
Zero Boys,
John Foxx,
Sound Behaviour,
Stereo Dub,
the Bar-Kays,
Kaleidoscope,
Metal Thangz,
The Raincoats,
Wasted Youth,
Pharoah Sanders,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Bill Wells,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Erykah Badu,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Cecil Taylor,
Massinfluence,
Isaac Hayes,
Khruangbin,
The Cure,
Pylon,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Agitation Free,
Jacques Brel,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Popol Vuh,
Tropical Tobacco,
Trumans Water,
David Bowie,
The Happenings,
Magma,
Blossom Toes,
Con Funk Shun,
Gong,
Joy Division,
Au Pairs,
The Moleskins,
Q and Not U,
Tears for Fears,
Kerri Chandler,
Roxy Music,
John Lydon,
Scott Walker,
The Litter,
Mo-Dettes,
Wally Richardson,
Todd Terry, Todd Terry, Todd Terry, Todd Terry.
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.