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 Vanuatu and from Halifax.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1964 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 1971 at the first Neu! practice in a loft in Düsseldorf.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Oblivians to the disco 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 8 Eyed Spy. All the underground hits.
All Jeff Mills tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every John Lydon record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Trumans Water record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Depeche Mode,
Ice-T,
Public Image Ltd.,
Television,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
The Gladiators,
Joey Negro,
Whodini,
Leonard Cohen,
Faraquet,
One Last Wish,
Minor Threat,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Magma,
Oblivians,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Shoche,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Supertramp,
Dave Gahan,
Q65,
Quadrant,
The Slackers,
Schoolly D,
Bizarre Inc.,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Jacques Brel,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Dave Clark Five,
Nick Fraelich,
Fugazi,
Loose Ends,
Idris Muhammad,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Brick,
Iggy Pop,
Derrick May,
PIL,
Connie Case,
Nils Olav,
Agent Orange,
Panda Bear,
the Fania All-Stars,
Main Source,
Quando Quango,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Carl Craig,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Fugs,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Moleskins,
Yazoo,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Barbara Tucker,
a-ha,
Piero Umiliani,
Massinfluence,
Avey Tare,
Kerri Chandler,
Echospace,
The Neon Judgement,
Mo-Dettes,
The Knickerbockers,
Larry & the Blue Notes, Larry & the Blue Notes, Larry & the Blue Notes, Larry & the Blue Notes.
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.