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 Iraq and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Throbbing Gristle show in 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 1966 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the 808 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 La Düsseldorf to the disco 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 La Düsseldorf. All the underground hits.
All Chrome tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Associates record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 a theremin and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rotary Connection record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Clear Light,
Fat Boys,
Can,
Todd Rundgren,
The Golliwogs,
Ten City,
Simply Red,
The Monks,
Lebanon Hanover,
Lucky Dragons,
Brothers Johnson,
Eddi Front,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Tim Buckley,
Al Stewart,
Jimmy McGriff,
Fatback Band,
Glambeats Corp.,
Johnny Clarke,
Hardrive,
Camouflage,
Silicon Teens,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Negative Approach,
The Black Dice,
Vladislav Delay,
Crash Course in Science,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Zero Boys,
Flash Fearless,
Scion,
Bush Tetras,
Black Moon,
Matthew Halsall,
Whodini,
Interpol,
Wings,
Pagans,
Black Flag,
Robert Görl,
Animal Collective,
Kenny Larkin,
Popol Vuh,
Unrelated Segments,
Soul II Soul,
The Moleskins,
Rhythm & Sound,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Glenn Branca,
Blake Baxter,
Sister Nancy,
Circle Jerks,
Kool Moe Dee,
Connie Case,
The Cramps,
Soulsonic Force,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Byron Stingily,
Ultimate Spinach,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Y Pants, Y Pants, Y Pants, Y Pants.
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.