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 Australia and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 Madrid and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Wasted Youth to the punk 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 Todd Rundgren. All the underground hits.
All The Mummies tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every K-Klass record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sound Behaviour record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Echospace,
Rosa Yemen,
The Searchers,
Nas,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Crispy Ambulance,
Con Funk Shun,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Janne Schatter,
New Order,
Parry Music,
the Human League,
World's Most,
Harpers Bizarre,
Fugazi,
The Young Rascals,
Minutemen,
Kurtis Blow,
Clear Light,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
The Birthday Party,
Black Flag,
Anakelly,
The Red Krayola,
Neu!,
The Wake,
John Cale,
Curtis Mayfield,
Sound Behaviour,
Warren Ellis,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Stereo Dub,
Buzzcocks,
Rhythm & Sound,
Moss Icon,
Sight & Sound,
Talk Talk,
Don Cherry,
Amazonics,
Roxy Music,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Ituana,
Soulsonic Force,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Lyres,
F. McDonald,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Lindisfarne,
Joe Finger,
Visage,
MDC,
A Certain Ratio,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Magma,
The Human League,
The Durutti Column,
Neil Young,
Hasil Adkins, Hasil Adkins, Hasil Adkins, Hasil Adkins.
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.