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 Jordan and from Paris.
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 1969 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Halifax.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 The Move to the rock kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Radiopuhelimet. All the underground hits.
All Wire tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Soft Machine 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Michelle Simonal record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Aural Exciters,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Sandy B,
Malaria!,
Eden Ahbez,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
X-101,
Sound Behaviour,
Tomorrow,
The Grass Roots,
Surgeon,
The Music Machine,
Rakim,
Essential Logic,
Dual Sessions,
Marmalade,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Seeds,
The Fortunes,
Monolake,
Echospace,
Junior Murvin,
Arcadia,
The Moleskins,
Boz Scaggs,
Rosa Yemen,
Hasil Adkins,
Rekid,
Nico,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Litter,
Joe Finger,
The Happenings,
Gabor Szabo,
Janne Schatter,
Joy Division,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Lucky Dragons,
Easy Going,
Scrapy,
Hashim,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Brand Nubian,
Brothers Johnson,
Deepchord,
Connie Case,
World's Most,
Jacques Brel,
Babytalk,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Todd Terry,
The Skatalites,
Gastr Del Sol,
the Swans,
Lee Hazlewood,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Liliput,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
MC5,
Susan Cadogan,
Slick Rick,
The Monks,
Laurel Aitken, Laurel Aitken, Laurel Aitken, Laurel Aitken.
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.