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 France and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and London.
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 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Litter to the punk 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 The Sound. All the underground hits.
All Fela Kuti tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every CMW record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Grandmaster Flash record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Adolescents,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Fear,
Pantaleimon,
Pharoah Sanders,
Agent Orange,
Negative Approach,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Ponytail,
Animal Collective,
Jawbox,
Fat Boys,
Cameo,
Bobby Byrd,
Marvin Gaye,
Fad Gadget,
the Sonics,
Bang On A Can,
Hashim,
The Velvet Underground,
The Five Americans,
Zero Boys,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Morten Harket,
Ten City,
Radiopuhelimet,
Lightning Bolt,
MDC,
Q and Not U,
Curtis Mayfield,
Shoche,
Stockholm Monsters,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Electric Prunes,
The Buckinghams,
FM Einheit,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Derrick Morgan,
Ronnie Foster,
Grandmaster Flash,
Marmalade,
The Techniques,
UT,
The Raincoats,
B.T. Express,
Magazine,
The Shadows of Knight,
Roxy Music,
The Motions,
Neil Young,
Stereo Dub,
Dual Sessions,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Simply Red,
Talk Talk,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Alarm Clocks,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Gabor Szabo,
Public Enemy, Public Enemy, Public Enemy, Public Enemy.
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.