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 India and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1970.
I was there at the first Onyeabor show in Enugu.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 mellotron 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 Youth Brigade 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 Kayak. All the underground hits.
All The Stooges tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every DJ Style record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a CMW record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Mighty Diamonds,
Derrick May,
Jeff Mills,
Cluster,
Marine Girls,
The Young Rascals,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Sight & Sound,
Eddi Front,
Lou Christie,
The Knickerbockers,
Unwound,
MC5,
Aloha Tigers,
Fear,
The Happenings,
Television Personalities,
Piero Umiliani,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Joy Division,
Amon Düül,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Country Joe & The Fish,
Matthew Halsall,
Pierre Henry,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Lucky Dragons,
Reuben Wilson,
The Red Krayola,
Shoche,
Donny Hathaway,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Rosa Yemen,
Wasted Youth,
Hashim,
Zapp,
The Wake,
Flamin' Groovies,
Young Marble Giants,
Crime,
Derrick Morgan,
The Human League,
Lebanon Hanover,
Todd Terry,
Charles Mingus,
Easy Going,
Fela Kuti,
Heaven 17,
DNA,
The New Christs,
The Vogues,
Freddie Wadling,
Visage,
Dave Gahan,
Thompson Twins,
Joey Negro,
Fifty Foot Hose,
T.S.O.L.,
These Immortal Souls,
Soul Sonic Force,
Mantronix, Mantronix, Mantronix, Mantronix.
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.