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 Qatar and from Lagos.
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 1967 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the oboe 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 Funky Four + One to the rock kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Wire. All the underground hits.
All Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Al Stewart 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Todd Terry record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Skriet,
Ludus,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Crooked Eye,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Neil Young,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Glenn Branca,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
K-Klass,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Clear Light,
Avey Tare,
Curtis Mayfield,
Maleditus Sound,
Absolute Body Control,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Gladiators,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Scrapy,
Byron Stingily,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Knickerbockers,
Supertramp,
Slave,
LL Cool J,
Anakelly,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Moby Grape,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Cameo,
Pantytec,
Motorama,
The Monochrome Set,
Nico,
The Leaves,
Dawn Penn,
Aaron Thompson,
the Soft Cell,
Circle Jerks,
the Association,
Icehouse,
Rekid,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
The Dave Clark Five,
Talk Talk,
Spandau Ballet,
Letta Mbulu,
Drexciya,
The Cowsills,
Judy Mowatt,
DNA,
The Shadows of Knight,
Eric Copeland,
Big Daddy Kane,
Young Marble Giants,
The Litter,
Main Source,
Lakeside,
Slick Rick, Slick Rick, Slick Rick, Slick Rick.
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.