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 Turkey and from Tehran.
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 1969 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 Jerry's Kids 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 Black Pus. All the underground hits.
All Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ajijia Myrayebe 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 rhodes and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a John Cale record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Vogues,
The Smoke,
Howard Jones,
Curtis Mayfield,
Peter and Kerry,
This Heat,
Joensuu 1685,
The Electric Prunes,
Cheater Slicks,
Yellowson,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Anthony Braxton,
Hasil Adkins,
Todd Terry,
Loose Ends,
Bizarre Inc.,
David Axelrod,
Heaven 17,
Section 25,
Swans,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Agent Orange,
Television Personalities,
Eyeless In Gaza,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Sarah Menescal,
Arthur Verocai,
Erykah Badu,
The Motions,
Gang Starr,
Matthew Bourne,
Dawn Penn,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Walker Brothers,
Moss Icon,
Oneida,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
A Certain Ratio,
Hashim,
Black Bananas,
Tom Boy,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Dark Day,
Delta 5,
Bob Dylan,
Gang Gang Dance,
Icehouse,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
H. Thieme,
Pussy Galore,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
John Lydon,
The Names,
Ultimate Spinach,
Graham Central Station,
Qualms,
Dave Gahan,
Audionom,
Bobby Womack, Bobby Womack, Bobby Womack, Bobby Womack.
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.