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 Belarus and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 1971 at the first Neu! practice in a loft in Düsseldorf.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Aural Exciters to the grime 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 Robert Hood. All the underground hits.
All Tropical Tobacco tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Public Image Ltd. record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
CMW,
Morten Harket,
Organ,
Johnny Clarke,
Scan 7,
The Mojo Men,
Matthew Bourne,
The Divine Comedy,
Traffic Nightmare,
David McCallum,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Hasil Adkins,
The Evens,
Arab on Radar,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Soul II Soul,
UT,
Schoolly D,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Procol Harum,
Max Romeo,
Lalann,
Connie Case,
Smog,
Faraquet,
Wings,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Marc Almond,
Franke,
The American Breed,
Rufus Thomas,
Aloha Tigers,
Second Layer,
Ituana,
Ice-T,
The Standells,
Janne Schatter,
D'Angelo,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
the Human League,
OOIOO,
Curtis Mayfield,
Boz Scaggs,
June of 44,
Symarip,
Tres Demented,
The Knickerbockers,
Bluetip,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Detroit Cobras,
Moby Grape,
Magazine,
Slick Rick,
Audionom,
Massinfluence,
Wire,
Radiopuhelimet,
KRS-One,
Suburban Knight,
Au Pairs,
Subhumans,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron.
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.