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 Gambia and from Mexico City.
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 1960 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 New Order to the disco 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 Nirvana. All the underground hits.
All Kurtis Blow tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Skaos record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 synthesizer and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Erasure record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Associates,
Vainqueur,
Drexciya,
Byron Stingily,
Chris & Cosey,
ABC,
Stereo Dub,
Con Funk Shun,
The Sound,
The Motions,
Wire,
Flash Fearless,
Toni Rubio,
Pharoah Sanders,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Lightning Bolt,
Rites of Spring,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Marvin Gaye,
Davy DMX,
The Slackers,
The Real Kids,
Maleditus Sound,
Monks,
Alton Ellis,
The Electric Prunes,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Angels of Light,
Letta Mbulu,
Amon Düül,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Fat Boys,
Soul Sonic Force,
Cluster,
Young Marble Giants,
Bill Wells,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Kayak,
The Monochrome Set,
Rakim,
Marine Girls,
The Residents,
Chris Corsano,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Zero Boys,
Nils Olav,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Youth Brigade,
Sound Behaviour,
Swans,
Joy Division,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Rosa Yemen,
Hot Snakes,
The Beau Brummels,
The Happenings,
Amon Düül II,
Quando Quango,
Iggy Pop,
Kango’s Stein Massive, Kango’s Stein Massive, Kango’s Stein Massive, Kango’s Stein Massive.
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.