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 Taiwan and from Jakarta.
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 1969 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the marimba 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 Excepter to the disco 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 Jeff Lynne. All the underground hits.
All Dave Gahan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Piero Umiliani record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 harpsichord and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Shadows of Knight record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bang On A Can,
Black Flag,
Sound Behaviour,
John Foxx,
Marc Almond,
Metal Thangz,
The Young Rascals,
Skaos,
Rakim,
The Star Department,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Letta Mbulu,
Boredoms,
The Cure,
The Selecter,
Echospace,
Kurtis Blow,
Crispian St. Peters,
Gichy Dan,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Organ,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Youth Brigade,
CMW,
the Normal,
Sandy B,
Pharoah Sanders,
Lalann,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Grauzone,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Ludus,
Terry Callier,
Kerri Chandler,
Jacob Miller,
Marmalade,
Nico,
Sixth Finger,
The Vogues,
Mandrill,
The Beau Brummels,
Grandmaster Flash,
Howard Jones,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
the Association,
John Lydon,
the Swans,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Dual Sessions,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Ronnie Foster,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Quadrant,
Stiv Bators,
Michelle Simonal,
Slick Rick,
Sister Nancy,
The Offenders,
Dark Day,
Pylon,
X-102, X-102, X-102, X-102.
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.