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 Laos and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 oboe 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 Panda Bear to the funk 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 Men They Couldn't Hang. All the underground hits.
All Gichy Dan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Excepter,
Scott Walker,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Vladislav Delay,
Joe Finger,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Nick Fraelich,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Crispy Ambulance,
David McCallum,
Aural Exciters,
Jeff Lynne,
Urselle,
Ponytail,
Throbbing Gristle,
Sällskapet,
Scion,
Dead Boys,
Gabor Szabo,
U.S. Maple,
Newcleus,
Soul II Soul,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Camberwell Now,
La Düsseldorf,
Slick Rick,
Visage,
Marc Almond,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Dark Day,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Detroit Cobras,
Eric Dolphy,
June Days,
Kurtis Blow,
Lalo Schifrin,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Groovy Waters,
Bizarre Inc.,
Al Stewart,
Sonny Sharrock,
Roxette,
Monolake,
Arcadia,
Das Ding,
Eddi Front,
Make Up,
Kas Product,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Andrew Hill,
Sam Rivers,
Nation of Ulysses,
Bluetip,
Maurizio,
Dorothy Ashby,
Bobby Womack,
The Kinks,
Stereo Dub,
Boogie Down Productions,
Traffic Nightmare, Traffic Nightmare, Traffic Nightmare, Traffic Nightmare.
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.