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 Croatia and from Manchester.
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 1968 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Wire to the disco kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Intrusion. All the underground hits.
All Eric B and Rakim tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Beau Brummels 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Real Kids record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Sonics,
Crispian St. Peters,
Drive Like Jehu,
Fear,
Pharoah Sanders,
Delta 5,
The Happenings,
Jeff Mills,
Duran Duran,
Brass Construction,
Arab on Radar,
The Evens,
Marshall Jefferson,
Quantec,
Index,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Modern Lovers,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Victims,
Qualms,
Hoover,
Masters at Work,
Mandrill,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Guru Guru,
Smog,
The Associates,
Eurythmics,
MC5,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
In Retrospect,
Hardrive,
The Skatalites,
Lee Hazlewood,
Groovy Waters,
Mantronix,
Anakelly,
Scion,
Dave Gahan,
Symarip,
Eli Mardock,
Nirvana,
Nils Olav,
Nas,
Marc Almond,
Funky Four + One,
Scrapy,
Godley & Creme,
Matthew Halsall,
Crash Course in Science,
Eden Ahbez,
Blossom Toes,
Yusef Lateef,
DJ Sneak,
Reagan Youth,
Scientists,
Gil Scott Heron,
New York Dolls,
The Dead C,
Max Romeo,
Pet Shop Boys,
Idris Muhammad,
Carl Craig, Carl Craig, Carl Craig, Carl Craig.
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.