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 United States and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1963 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 The Cure to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Masters at Work. All the underground hits.
All Animal Collective tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Theoretical Girls record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Mantronix record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Main Source,
Minnie Riperton,
The Young Rascals,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Can,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Unwound,
Alphaville,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Hashim,
Barry Ungar,
The Monochrome Set,
FM Einheit,
Animal Collective,
Brick,
The Blues Magoos,
Danielle Patucci,
The Music Machine,
Grey Daturas,
Fela Kuti,
The Searchers,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Dark Day,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Bobby Womack,
Bauhaus,
Kerrie Biddell,
Joey Negro,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
China Crisis,
Magma,
PIL,
Idris Muhammad,
Nico,
Erasure,
Hasil Adkins,
Niagra,
Matthew Bourne,
Todd Rundgren,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Parry Music,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Jeff Mills,
Anthony Braxton,
T. Rex,
The Doobie Brothers,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Angels of Light,
Technova,
Porter Ricks,
Goldenarms,
Faust,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
DNA,
Matthew Halsall,
Ronan,
These Immortal Souls,
Delon & Dalcan,
Ultra Naté,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Avey Tare, Avey Tare, Avey Tare, Avey Tare.
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.