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 Dominican Republic and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Pierre Henry to the jazz kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Oppenheimer Analysis. All the underground hits.
All Monolake tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Grey Daturas record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 808 and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Monochrome Set record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Fluxion,
Kas Product,
Bill Near,
Godley & Creme,
Mars,
FM Einheit,
Aural Exciters,
The Happenings,
Kerri Chandler,
Liliput,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Franke,
Groovy Waters,
Japan,
Vainqueur,
Minor Threat,
The Motions,
X-102,
Suicide,
Reuben Wilson,
the Bar-Kays,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Smoke,
kango's stein massive,
Malaria!,
Arthur Verocai,
Wally Richardson,
a-ha,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Peter & Gordon,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Swell Maps,
Intrusion,
Los Fastidios,
Public Enemy,
Technova,
Neu!,
Wasted Youth,
Spoonie Gee,
Black Bananas,
Excepter,
Bush Tetras,
Warsaw,
Gang Starr,
The Modern Lovers,
Ludus,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Ohio Players,
Con Funk Shun,
David McCallum,
Moby Grape,
Sight & Sound,
The Vogues,
Agitation Free,
Das Ding,
Bizarre Inc.,
Toni Rubio,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Isaac Hayes,
The Shadows of Knight,
Howard Jones,
Symarip,
Jerry's Kids, Jerry's Kids, Jerry's Kids, Jerry's Kids.
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.