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 Latvia and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 Lille and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
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 The Cure to the punk 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 Masters at Work. All the underground hits.
All Technova tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Sonics 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Vainqueur record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Country Joe & The Fish,
Khruangbin,
Cymande,
Moebius,
Colin Newman,
New Order,
Todd Terry,
Gichy Dan,
David Axelrod,
The Human League,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Skaos,
Q and Not U,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Robert Wyatt,
The New Christs,
Derrick Morgan,
Albert Ayler,
The Electric Prunes,
World's Most,
Crispian St. Peters,
Yazoo,
The Barracudas,
X-101,
Massinfluence,
Lower 48,
Danielle Patucci,
Kool Moe Dee,
Robert Görl,
The Tremeloes,
Panda Bear,
Andrew Hill,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Procol Harum,
Jeff Mills,
Black Moon,
Tears for Fears,
X-Ray Spex,
K-Klass,
Arthur Verocai,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Matthew Halsall,
Crime,
Junior Murvin,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Saccharine Trust,
Janne Schatter,
Steve Hackett,
Eric B and Rakim,
Laurel Aitken,
Von Mondo,
Aswad,
Suicide,
Morten Harket,
Trumans Water,
Dorothy Ashby,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Wally Richardson,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Gap Band, The Gap Band, The Gap Band, The Gap Band.
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.