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 Poland and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 organ 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 La Düsseldorf 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 DJ Sneak. All the underground hits.
All Hashim tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Soft Cell record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Mighty Diamonds,
In Retrospect,
Technova,
Neil Young,
Shoche,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Tom Boy,
Desert Stars,
The Skatalites,
Lalann,
The Pop Group,
Livin' Joy,
The Stooges,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Tears for Fears,
K-Klass,
Grandmaster Flash,
Theoretical Girls,
The Knickerbockers,
The United States of America,
Eric Dolphy,
Siglo XX,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Jandek,
The Gun Club,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Harry Pussy,
the Association,
Rosa Yemen,
the Swans,
Deepchord,
Can,
Wire,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Flamin' Groovies,
Duran Duran,
The Electric Prunes,
Soulsonic Force,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Don Cherry,
the Germs,
The Zeros,
Public Enemy,
Franke,
Rufus Thomas,
H. Thieme,
Kerri Chandler,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Birthday Party,
Tubeway Army,
Jawbox,
The Pretty Things,
Kaleidoscope,
Eurythmics,
Mary Jane Girls,
Mars,
Pagans,
Derrick May,
X-102, X-102, X-102, X-102.
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.