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 Benin and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron 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 1968 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the sitar 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 Heavy D & The Boyz to the rap kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Public Enemy. All the underground hits.
All The Slits 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 funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Tremeloes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Swell Maps,
Isaac Hayes,
Sixth Finger,
Mars,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Kenny Larkin,
Delta 5,
Magma,
One Last Wish,
Boredoms,
the Association,
Index,
Ultimate Spinach,
Excepter,
Lebanon Hanover,
June Days,
Motorama,
Eden Ahbez,
Mary Jane Girls,
Tim Buckley,
Bang On A Can,
Guru Guru,
The Red Krayola,
Severed Heads,
Bobby Byrd,
The Moleskins,
La Düsseldorf,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Walker Brothers,
Rosa Yemen,
Unwound,
Joensuu 1685,
Animal Collective,
John Foxx,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Fad Gadget,
Amon Düül II,
Marvin Gaye,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
John Holt,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Idris Muhammad,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Dave Gahan,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Wire,
The Golliwogs,
Terrestrial Tones,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
New Order,
Shoche,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Bill Wells,
Bobby Sherman,
The Moody Blues,
Max Romeo,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Eli Mardock,
Anakelly,
Arab on Radar,
Scrapy,
The Mummies,
Television Personalities, Television Personalities, Television Personalities, Television Personalities.
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.