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 China and from Glasgow.
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 1966 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the güiro 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 Nation of Ulysses 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 Yazoo. All the underground hits.
All Zapp tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Selecter record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 spring reverb and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Panda Bear record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
X-102,
Soul II Soul,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Tears for Fears,
Nation of Ulysses,
Kaleidoscope,
Eric Dolphy,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Knickerbockers,
Alton Ellis,
Isaac Hayes,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Gang Gang Dance,
Cameo,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Sparks,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
OOIOO,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
the Fania All-Stars,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Delta 5,
Brick,
Crispy Ambulance,
Khruangbin,
Arcadia,
The J.B.'s,
DJ Style,
Malaria!,
Scientists,
Young Marble Giants,
Sex Pistols,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Sonics,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
John Holt,
The Real Kids,
ABC,
the Normal,
Steve Hackett,
The Tremeloes,
The Raincoats,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
T.S.O.L.,
Metal Thangz,
The Angels of Light,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Terrestrial Tones,
Alphaville,
Scratch Acid,
Drive Like Jehu,
Mary Jane Girls,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Shuggie Otis,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Sam Rivers,
Lou Reed,
Gang of Four,
The Misunderstood,
Excepter,
Basic Channel,
DeepChord presents Echospace, DeepChord presents Echospace, DeepChord presents Echospace, DeepChord presents Echospace.
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.