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 Belize and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia 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 1961 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 1968 at the first Can practice in a loft in Cologne.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Easy Going to the electroclash 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 Wally Richardson. All the underground hits.
All Jeff Mills tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every X-101 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Maleditus Sound record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jeff Lynne,
AZ,
Jesper Dahlback,
Erykah Badu,
Pussy Galore,
Agent Orange,
The Music Machine,
Godley & Creme,
Laurel Aitken,
Dual Sessions,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Eli Mardock,
Kayak,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Minnie Riperton,
Visage,
In Retrospect,
The Monochrome Set,
The Barracudas,
Graham Central Station,
Oneida,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Scion,
June Days,
Echospace,
Kas Product,
The Mummies,
Radiopuhelimet,
Fort Wilson Riot,
T. Rex,
Thee Headcoats,
Mantronix,
Jeru the Damaja,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Y Pants,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Arthur Verocai,
Brand Nubian,
Parry Music,
MDC,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Derrick Morgan,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Fat Boys,
The Wake,
Sällskapet,
10cc,
Letta Mbulu,
John Foxx,
Alison Limerick,
CMW,
Erasure,
Nico,
This Heat,
The Star Department,
Anthony Braxton, Anthony Braxton, Anthony Braxton, Anthony Braxton.
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.