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 Burkina and from London.
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 1966 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Toronto.
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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Sun City Girls to the disco kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Metal Thangz. All the underground hits.
All Beasts of Bourbon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Durutti Column 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Q65 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Faust,
Heaven 17,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Gil Scott Heron,
Shuggie Otis,
Gichy Dan,
Echospace,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Derrick May,
Agitation Free,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Q and Not U,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Whodini,
Roxette,
Juan Atkins,
Ronnie Foster,
Animal Collective,
Joy Division,
Drexciya,
Boredoms,
the Bar-Kays,
New Age Steppers,
Khruangbin,
Scratch Acid,
Von Mondo,
Brothers Johnson,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
T.S.O.L.,
Lungfish,
Peter & Gordon,
Yaz,
Interpol,
Model 500,
Man Eating Sloth,
Roy Ayers,
The Residents,
The Music Machine,
Quando Quango,
Joyce Sims,
Quadrant,
New Order,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Panda Bear,
Kerri Chandler,
Toni Rubio,
K-Klass,
The Gories,
the Slits,
Sun City Girls,
The Trojans,
The Grass Roots,
Popol Vuh,
The United States of America,
Anakelly,
Colin Newman,
Section 25,
Graham Central Station,
Cecil Taylor,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Lee Hazlewood, Lee Hazlewood, Lee Hazlewood, Lee Hazlewood.
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.