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 Brazil and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1963 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Accra.
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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the snare 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 Flipper to the funk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Jesper Dahlbäck. All the underground hits.
All Brothers Johnson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Electric Prunes 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lyres record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scott Walker,
the Human League,
Nation of Ulysses,
kango's stein massive,
Absolute Body Control,
World's Most,
JFA,
a-ha,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Gastr Del Sol,
Bad Manners,
Black Moon,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Remains,
The Move,
The Skatalites,
Bang On A Can,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Derrick Morgan,
Pulsallama,
Henry Cow,
Ralphi Rosario,
David Axelrod,
The Trojans,
Dennis Brown,
Ludus,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Smoke,
The Dave Clark Five,
Cameo,
Johnny Clarke,
Matthew Bourne,
The Red Krayola,
Schoolly D,
The Residents,
Don Cherry,
Leonard Cohen,
Yellowson,
Jawbox,
Siglo XX,
Tears for Fears,
Ornette Coleman,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Buzzcocks,
Inner City,
Prince Buster,
Johnny Osbourne,
Bill Near,
Lower 48,
Deadbeat,
Excepter,
Mad Mike,
Rotary Connection,
Public Image Ltd.,
Slave,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Man Parrish,
Wings,
Sound Behaviour,
Mission of Burma, Mission of Burma, Mission of Burma, Mission of Burma.
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.