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 Nepal and from Mumbai.
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 1967 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 1976 at the first Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the snare 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 Donny Hathaway to the funk 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 CMW. All the underground hits.
All Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Aloha Tigers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Skaos record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lebanon Hanover,
Yellowson,
Juan Atkins,
Terry Callier,
Soul II Soul,
Babytalk,
Underground Resistance,
OOIOO,
The Doors,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Traffic Nightmare,
Joe Smooth,
It's A Beautiful Day,
New Age Steppers,
Organ,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Modern Lovers,
Scientists,
Groovy Waters,
Nirvana,
Severed Heads,
Colin Newman,
the Human League,
Ronan,
Accadde A,
Robert Hood,
The Mummies,
Procol Harum,
Pere Ubu,
Donny Hathaway,
Graham Central Station,
Kevin Saunderson,
Derrick Morgan,
One Last Wish,
Electric Prunes,
the Association,
Johnny Clarke,
Dawn Penn,
Rosa Yemen,
The Techniques,
Altered Images,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Leaves,
Davy DMX,
Ultravox,
Slick Rick,
Man Eating Sloth,
Peter & Gordon,
Inner City,
The Dave Clark Five,
Basic Channel,
Pylon,
Bluetip,
Kurtis Blow,
Deakin,
David Bowie,
MC5,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Suicide,
Sarah Menescal, Sarah Menescal, Sarah Menescal, Sarah Menescal.
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.