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 New Zealand and from Cairo.
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 1962 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Spandau Ballet to the rock kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Victims. All the underground hits.
All Marvin Gaye tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every E-Dancer record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 a güiro and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a David Axelrod record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bill Near,
Siglo XX,
Jeff Mills,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Angels of Light,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Soulsonic Force,
The Gun Club,
Bootsy Collins,
Bang On A Can,
Swans,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Faust,
Wolf Eyes,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Mad Mike,
Parry Music,
The Grass Roots,
Funky Four + One,
The United States of America,
OOIOO,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Wings,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Zapp,
One Last Wish,
Maurizio,
Throbbing Gristle,
the Swans,
Derrick Morgan,
Lou Christie,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Guru Guru,
Bobby Sherman,
Don Cherry,
The Count Five,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Matthew Halsall,
Masters at Work,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Los Fastidios,
Arthur Verocai,
Rakim,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Aloha Tigers,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Shadows of Knight,
Eddi Front,
Marc Almond,
The Pop Group,
Television Personalities,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Delta 5,
The Cure,
Scratch Acid,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Skaos,
Michelle Simonal,
Neu!,
Blossom Toes,
Fear,
Pharoah Sanders, Pharoah Sanders, Pharoah Sanders, Pharoah Sanders.
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.