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 Sudan and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Kaleidoscope to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Essential Logic. All the underground hits.
All Kayak tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every New York Dolls record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 an oboe and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Erykah Badu record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Oblivians,
Donny Hathaway,
Rod Modell,
The Five Americans,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Janne Schatter,
Gang of Four,
The Slackers,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Angry Samoans,
Tears for Fears,
Oneida,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Quando Quango,
Wings,
The Dead C,
Index,
Von Mondo,
Circle Jerks,
Nils Olav,
Mo-Dettes,
Monolake,
Hasil Adkins,
Amon Düül II,
The Index,
Animal Collective,
These Immortal Souls,
kango's stein massive,
Fear,
Pantaleimon,
The Stooges,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Sugar Minott,
Faust,
ABC,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Skriet,
Tommy Roe,
Howard Jones,
L. Decosne,
The Smoke,
The Birthday Party,
Archie Shepp,
F. McDonald,
Harmonia,
Arab on Radar,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Agitation Free,
Ossler,
Michelle Simonal,
T. Rex,
The Gap Band,
the Sonics,
Gastr Del Sol,
Section 25,
Carl Craig,
Wasted Youth,
David Bowie,
Sight & Sound,
Funky Four + One, Funky Four + One, Funky Four + One, Funky Four + One.
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.