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 Egypt and from Glasgow.
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 1967 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 synthesizer 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 It's A Beautiful Day to the rock kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic. All the underground hits.
All Agent Orange tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Zeros record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 marimba and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Japan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Yazoo,
Matthew Halsall,
June of 44,
The Alarm Clocks,
Television,
Audionom,
The Blackbyrds,
The Walker Brothers,
Boz Scaggs,
Sun Ra,
Lower 48,
Gastr Del Sol,
Gregory Isaacs,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Derrick Morgan,
The Detroit Cobras,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Q and Not U,
Deepchord,
Sexual Harrassment,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Crispy Ambulance,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Jerry's Kids,
Scan 7,
the Bar-Kays,
Swans,
Sarah Menescal,
Robert Hood,
Babytalk,
Pylon,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Roxy Music,
Animal Collective,
Fad Gadget,
Nik Kershaw,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
John Foxx,
Clear Light,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Pierre Henry,
The Standells,
a-ha,
Smog,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Piero Umiliani,
Country Teasers,
Echospace,
John Lydon,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Alice Coltrane,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Nas,
A Certain Ratio,
Derrick May,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The Victims,
Main Source,
Morten Harket, Morten Harket, Morten Harket, Morten Harket.
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.