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 Ireland and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 linndrum 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 The Doobie Brothers to the electroclash 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 The Royal Family And The Poor. All the underground hits.
All Laurel Aitken tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Louis and Bebe Barron 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Robert Wyatt record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Q and Not U,
Talk Talk,
Scott Walker,
Bobby Byrd,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Quando Quango,
Mr. Review,
Delon & Dalcan,
Pole,
Vainqueur,
Youth Brigade,
Rod Modell,
The Litter,
Sister Nancy,
Soft Cell,
Pantaleimon,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Chris Corsano,
In Retrospect,
Public Enemy,
The Cure,
Average White Band,
Nik Kershaw,
Audionom,
The Gun Club,
Laurel Aitken,
Absolute Body Control,
R.M.O.,
Al Stewart,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Prince Buster,
Excepter,
Sun Ra,
Stiv Bators,
Maurizio,
Neu!,
The Walker Brothers,
The Electric Prunes,
Dennis Brown,
Television Personalities,
Ralphi Rosario,
New Age Steppers,
Thompson Twins,
Johnny Clarke,
the Bar-Kays,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
the Swans,
Model 500,
Jacob Miller,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Wake,
The Grass Roots,
kango's stein massive,
Mantronix,
Flash Fearless,
Lou Reed,
Soft Machine,
Make Up,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor.
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.