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 Kuwait and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1968 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Halifax.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Liliput to the techno 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 The Associates. All the underground hits.
All Moss Icon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Buzzcocks record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 güiro and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Echospace record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Cure,
The Martian,
Alison Limerick,
Procol Harum,
Piero Umiliani,
JFA,
Darondo,
Mantronix,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
8 Eyed Spy,
The Moleskins,
Deepchord,
The J.B.'s,
MC5,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Michelle Simonal,
K-Klass,
Eli Mardock,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Ralphi Rosario,
Barry Ungar,
Nico,
FM Einheit,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Leonard Cohen,
The Toasters,
Todd Terry,
Jerry's Kids,
Al Stewart,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
the Normal,
The Pretty Things,
Fluxion,
Monolake,
Los Fastidios,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Maleditus Sound,
Dave Gahan,
Sight & Sound,
Janne Schatter,
Donald Byrd,
The United States of America,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Throbbing Gristle,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Anakelly,
Idris Muhammad,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
F. McDonald,
Man Parrish,
Erykah Badu,
Brass Construction,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Kevin Saunderson,
Radiopuhelimet,
Sun Ra,
Loose Ends,
Monks,
Quantec, Quantec, Quantec, Quantec.
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.