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 Austria and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Symarip to the grime kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Talk Talk. All the underground hits.
All Scott Walker + Sunn O))) tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pylon 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Swans,
Danielle Patucci,
The Sonics,
Bush Tetras,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Gabor Szabo,
Quadrant,
Joe Finger,
Joensuu 1685,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Wolf Eyes,
Hardrive,
Bluetip,
Nas,
The New Christs,
Maurizio,
The Pretty Things,
Surgeon,
Magma,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Fela Kuti,
Tears for Fears,
Robert Wyatt,
Rufus Thomas,
Eurythmics,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Terry Callier,
Big Daddy Kane,
Bizarre Inc.,
Sound Behaviour,
The Martian,
Pylon,
Jeff Lynne,
Lalann,
Suicide,
Sixth Finger,
Alton Ellis,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Byron Stingily,
Joe Smooth,
Dennis Brown,
Joey Negro,
Soul II Soul,
Dave Gahan,
Soulsonic Force,
Malaria!,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Kerri Chandler,
Carl Craig,
Amon Düül,
Essential Logic,
Chrome,
Duran Duran,
Massinfluence,
cv313,
Arthur Verocai,
Andrew Hill,
Aaron Thompson,
Tommy Roe,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Accadde A,
Radio Birdman,
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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.