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 Palau and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1967 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Black Dice to the techno 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 Echospace. All the underground hits.
All Model 500 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Detroit Cobras 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Justin Hinds & The Dominoes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kerri Chandler,
Technova,
Jacques Brel,
The Moleskins,
Kool Moe Dee,
Organ,
Scan 7,
Darondo,
Jesper Dahlback,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Babytalk,
Harpers Bizarre,
Anakelly,
Dual Sessions,
Royal Trux,
Simply Red,
The Golliwogs,
John Holt,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Outsiders,
8 Eyed Spy,
Chris & Cosey,
Radiohead,
Zapp,
Marshall Jefferson,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Sandy B,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Deadbeat,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Grass Roots,
Peter and Kerry,
Lyres,
Curtis Mayfield,
Ituana,
Gichy Dan,
Average White Band,
The Motions,
The Durutti Column,
Letta Mbulu,
Kas Product,
The Residents,
Bobby Sherman,
Das Ding,
Brand Nubian,
Au Pairs,
Guru Guru,
Cybotron,
The Dave Clark Five,
Con Funk Shun,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Young Rascals,
Joyce Sims,
The Litter,
Rufus Thomas,
Marvin Gaye,
Reagan Youth,
Quantec,
The Selecter,
Khruangbin,
Animal Collective,
Icehouse,
B.T. Express,
James Chance & The Contortions, James Chance & The Contortions, James Chance & The Contortions, James Chance & The Contortions.
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.