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 Malta and from Lagos.
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 1960 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 1968 at the first Can practice in a loft in Cologne.
I was working on the güiro 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 Arthur Verocai to the dance 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 Faust. All the underground hits.
All Circle Jerks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joensuu 1685 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Anakelly record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Intrusion,
Slave,
Crash Course in Science,
Derrick May,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Duran Duran,
Soulsonic Force,
Arcadia,
Simply Red,
The Litter,
Pharoah Sanders,
Colin Newman,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Sound,
Hasil Adkins,
The Red Krayola,
the Bar-Kays,
Deadbeat,
Sarah Menescal,
Bill Near,
Massinfluence,
Dave Gahan,
Angry Samoans,
Graham Central Station,
The Remains,
E-Dancer,
Pet Shop Boys,
Lightning Bolt,
The United States of America,
Derrick Morgan,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Cal Tjader,
Andrew Hill,
JFA,
Vainqueur,
Talk Talk,
Skaos,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Thee Headcoats,
Procol Harum,
Lee Hazlewood,
Jeru the Damaja,
The Slackers,
New Age Steppers,
The Barracudas,
China Crisis,
Sexual Harrassment,
Mary Jane Girls,
Quadrant,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Gichy Dan,
Nils Olav,
The Shadows of Knight,
Minnie Riperton,
Roxette,
The Raincoats,
cv313,
The Pretty Things,
John Foxx,
Letta Mbulu,
Joe Smooth, Joe Smooth, Joe Smooth, Joe Smooth.
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.