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 Slovenia and from Seoul.
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 1969 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Sao Paulo.
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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the clarinet 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 The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band to the electroclash 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 Soulsonic Force. All the underground hits.
All Marmalade tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every 10cc 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Golliwogs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dave Gahan,
The United States of America,
The Young Rascals,
James White and The Blacks,
Mary Jane Girls,
Joensuu 1685,
Derrick May,
Lakeside,
Erykah Badu,
Roxette,
Jawbox,
Tommy Roe,
The Shadows of Knight,
Donald Byrd,
Kayak,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Anthony Braxton,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Neil Young,
Deakin,
Soul Sonic Force,
Bobby Womack,
Matthew Halsall,
Warsaw,
Skriet,
Dark Day,
Section 25,
Heaven 17,
Man Eating Sloth,
Crispy Ambulance,
Sister Nancy,
ABBA,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Iggy Pop,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Raincoats,
The Fuzztones,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Fluxion,
Faraquet,
The Mojo Men,
Yusef Lateef,
Warren Ellis,
Kenny Larkin,
John Holt,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Zeros,
Ultimate Spinach,
Minnie Riperton,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Stetsasonic,
The Divine Comedy,
Gong,
Gang Starr,
Circle Jerks,
Gang Gang Dance,
Bush Tetras,
Ronan,
Peter and Kerry,
Sight & Sound, Sight & Sound, Sight & Sound, Sight & Sound.
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.