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 Somalia and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 Halifax and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Harmonia to the electroclash 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 JFA. All the underground hits.
All La Düsseldorf tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Robert Görl 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Motorama record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Monochrome Set,
Marc Almond,
The Walker Brothers,
Jerry's Kids,
Jeff Mills,
ABC,
Scion,
Vainqueur,
Robert Görl,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Scrapy,
Delta 5,
The United States of America,
Bill Wells,
Arab on Radar,
Guru Guru,
Wally Richardson,
The Birthday Party,
Joe Smooth,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
the Bar-Kays,
Reuben Wilson,
Quadrant,
Reagan Youth,
The Durutti Column,
The Moleskins,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
F. McDonald,
Scientists,
Rufus Thomas,
Lee Hazlewood,
L. Decosne,
Inner City,
The Skatalites,
Brick,
Procol Harum,
Suburban Knight,
Ralphi Rosario,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Graham Central Station,
Black Pus,
Ossler,
The Pretty Things,
Dawn Penn,
Los Fastidios,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Parry Music,
Popol Vuh,
Infiniti,
Lower 48,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Grandmaster Flash,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Howard Jones,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Eden Ahbez,
Radiohead, Radiohead, Radiohead, Radiohead.
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.