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 Belize and from Tokyo.
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 1960 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 1968 at the first Can practice in a loft in Cologne.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Todd Terry to the rock kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Blancmange. All the underground hits.
All Isaac Hayes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dave Gahan record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Arcadia record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
David Axelrod,
Sun Ra,
Ronan,
Mad Mike,
Deakin,
Mandrill,
The Motions,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Metal Thangz,
Gregory Isaacs,
Adolescents,
Gil Scott Heron,
Sparks,
Bill Wells,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Throbbing Gristle,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Liliput,
Audionom,
Wings,
Toni Rubio,
Unrelated Segments,
Patti Smith,
Nico,
Mark Hollis,
DNA,
The American Breed,
Ten City,
Brand Nubian,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Lightning Bolt,
Pulsallama,
Subhumans,
Rosa Yemen,
Pantytec,
Skriet,
Eric Copeland,
cv313,
Cameo,
Pet Shop Boys,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Blossom Toes,
Stereo Dub,
Hardrive,
Kevin Saunderson,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Can,
Soulsonic Force,
Zapp,
Bob Dylan,
Andrew Hill,
Thee Headcoats,
Swell Maps,
Glenn Branca,
Chrome,
Yaz,
Matthew Bourne,
UT,
Man Eating Sloth,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Smiths, The Smiths, The Smiths, The Smiths.
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.