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 Ghana and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in 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 1960 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Country Joe & The Fish 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 Heaven 17. All the underground hits.
All Lucky Dragons tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every New Order record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 theremin and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bobby Sherman record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Hasil Adkins,
Excepter,
Patti Smith,
Skriet,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Magazine,
Suburban Knight,
Livin' Joy,
Amazonics,
Matthew Bourne,
Altered Images,
Rod Modell,
Donald Byrd,
Pantytec,
Juan Atkins,
New Order,
Radiopuhelimet,
Ornette Coleman,
The Fire Engines,
The Monochrome Set,
Janne Schatter,
The Remains,
La Düsseldorf,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Interpol,
Severed Heads,
The United States of America,
Flamin' Groovies,
Parry Music,
T. Rex,
Hoover,
Bobby Sherman,
Nik Kershaw,
The Grass Roots,
Frankie Knuckles,
Joe Finger,
Fear,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The American Breed,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Doobie Brothers,
Moebius,
Kerrie Biddell,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Bronski Beat,
Lee Hazlewood,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Sun City Girls,
Guru Guru,
Deakin,
Stereo Dub,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Blackbyrds,
Grandmaster Flash,
Tim Buckley,
Iggy Pop,
The Evens,
Barclay James Harvest, Barclay James Harvest, Barclay James Harvest, Barclay James Harvest.
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.