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 Israel and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 London and Houston.
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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Fela Kuti to the dance 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 Max Romeo. All the underground hits.
All Robert Görl tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Technova record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sarah Menescal record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Smoke,
John Cale,
The New Christs,
Swell Maps,
Flamin' Groovies,
Aural Exciters,
Deakin,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Duran Duran,
The Move,
Ituana,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Yellowson,
Hoover,
Drexciya,
Deepchord,
Robert Görl,
Inner City,
Maurizio,
Cymande,
Lou Reed,
the Swans,
Technova,
Wire,
Animal Collective,
FM Einheit,
Sparks,
Supertramp,
David Axelrod,
Grauzone,
Bush Tetras,
Sonic Youth,
Althea and Donna,
The Invisible,
Dead Boys,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Kaleidoscope,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Rakim,
Gang Green,
Danielle Patucci,
The Doors,
Country Joe & The Fish,
D'Angelo,
Sister Nancy,
Smog,
Eddi Front,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Dual Sessions,
Panda Bear,
K-Klass,
Section 25,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Eric Dolphy,
Rapeman,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Cramps,
Alphaville,
Skriet,
Grandmaster Flash,
Saccharine Trust,
Ohio Players, Ohio Players, Ohio Players, Ohio Players.
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.