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 Antigua and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1962 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 1971 at the first Neu! practice in a loft in Düsseldorf.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 The Tremeloes to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 K-Klass. All the underground hits.
All This Heat tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Chrome 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Essential Logic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
kango's stein massive,
Blancmange,
Unwound,
Popol Vuh,
X-Ray Spex,
Steve Hackett,
Boz Scaggs,
Brass Construction,
Stetsasonic,
Delta 5,
The Divine Comedy,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Mission of Burma,
The Victims,
June Days,
World's Most,
The Shadows of Knight,
Main Source,
The American Breed,
Idris Muhammad,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
R.M.O.,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Kinks,
Drexciya,
Ronan,
Gang Gang Dance,
Nas,
The Smoke,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Magazine,
Animal Collective,
The Human League,
The Toasters,
Basic Channel,
Aural Exciters,
Arcadia,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Soft Machine,
Oneida,
Q65,
Eurythmics,
Interpol,
Junior Murvin,
Joey Negro,
Marine Girls,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Mummies,
The Modern Lovers,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Frankie Knuckles,
The Offenders,
Traffic Nightmare,
Minnie Riperton,
The Gladiators,
Johnny Osbourne,
Surgeon,
Kevin Saunderson,
Charles Mingus,
Fort Wilson Riot,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Pierre Henry,
Al Stewart,
Kayak, Kayak, Kayak, Kayak.
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.