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 Rwanda and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1965 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the 808 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 Cluster to the punk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Hasil Adkins. All the underground hits.
All Stockholm Monsters tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Black Sheep 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gregory Isaacs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Saccharine Trust,
Alphaville,
Shoche,
Silicon Teens,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Ronan,
Peter & Gordon,
Jesper Dahlback,
Ponytail,
Rapeman,
Bush Tetras,
Tropical Tobacco,
Bad Manners,
Swans,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
the Sonics,
James White and The Blacks,
David McCallum,
Janne Schatter,
The Barracudas,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Tommy Roe,
Popol Vuh,
The Star Department,
Amazonics,
T. Rex,
Ralphi Rosario,
Ituana,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Barry Ungar,
Whodini,
Graham Central Station,
Dennis Brown,
Faust,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Hoover,
Drive Like Jehu,
Glambeats Corp.,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
FM Einheit,
Lebanon Hanover,
Skaos,
Goldenarms,
The Walker Brothers,
Gang Starr,
Audionom,
K-Klass,
Radiohead,
The Evens,
The Fortunes,
Loose Ends,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Todd Terry,
Anthony Braxton,
Icehouse,
Harpers Bizarre,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Michelle Simonal, Michelle Simonal, Michelle Simonal, Michelle Simonal.
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.