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 Botswana and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 synthesizer 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 Radiohead to the rap kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Harpers Bizarre tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Neil Young record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Roy Ayers Ubiquity record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Mantronix,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Steve Hackett,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Quando Quango,
David Axelrod,
Janne Schatter,
Isaac Hayes,
Sexual Harrassment,
Gabor Szabo,
Depeche Mode,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Alison Limerick,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Rufus Thomas,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Faust,
Drexciya,
Sonic Youth,
Glambeats Corp.,
Surgeon,
The Fortunes,
Aswad,
The Victims,
The Martian,
Interpol,
Severed Heads,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Cowsills,
Pere Ubu,
Judy Mowatt,
Lee Hazlewood,
Camberwell Now,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Average White Band,
Moss Icon,
The Fugs,
This Heat,
Matthew Bourne,
Wire,
Bad Manners,
The Pretty Things,
The Birthday Party,
Prince Buster,
Donny Hathaway,
Guru Guru,
Nico,
Soul II Soul,
Shuggie Otis,
Smog,
The Evens,
The Black Dice,
The Fire Engines,
Symarip,
Dennis Brown,
The Red Krayola,
Patti Smith,
Black Pus,
The Gories,
Camouflage,
The Moody Blues, The Moody Blues, The Moody Blues, The Moody Blues.
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.