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 Thailand and from Accra.
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 1960 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Fortunes to the rap kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Radio Birdman. All the underground hits.
All Sparks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Tropical Tobacco record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Theoretical Girls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Q and Not U,
Joensuu 1685,
Piero Umiliani,
Soul II Soul,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Sly & The Family Stone,
John Cale,
Unwound,
Pet Shop Boys,
Brass Construction,
Can,
The Velvet Underground,
Chris & Cosey,
David McCallum,
Essential Logic,
Skriet,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Quantec,
Sex Pistols,
Ronnie Foster,
Matthew Halsall,
Flipper,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Quando Quango,
Lindisfarne,
The Gun Club,
Pole,
Television,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Sound Behaviour,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
the Sonics,
Isaac Hayes,
Sonic Youth,
Byron Stingily,
Whodini,
Faraquet,
Sister Nancy,
10cc,
Public Enemy,
Nico,
Leonard Cohen,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Rod Modell,
Mo-Dettes,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Flamin' Groovies,
Echospace,
Jeff Mills,
Kerri Chandler,
New York Dolls,
Althea and Donna,
The Slits,
Delta 5,
Circle Jerks,
The Cure,
Donny Hathaway,
Scott Walker,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Scientists,
Wolf Eyes, Wolf Eyes, Wolf Eyes, Wolf Eyes.
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.