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 Portugal and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Milan.
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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Motorama to the techno kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Brothers Johnson. All the underground hits.
All Heaven 17 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sun Ra Arkestra 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Mo-Dettes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joensuu 1685,
Blake Baxter,
Chrome,
Average White Band,
Babytalk,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Smoke,
Vladislav Delay,
The Searchers,
Eli Mardock,
Nirvana,
Jerry's Kids,
Ohio Players,
Ronnie Foster,
Wire,
Loose Ends,
The Doobie Brothers,
Agitation Free,
Smog,
Todd Rundgren,
Das Ding,
Procol Harum,
the Normal,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Idris Muhammad,
Scratch Acid,
Matthew Halsall,
Surgeon,
Hot Snakes,
The Litter,
Jeff Mills,
Andrew Hill,
the Bar-Kays,
The Names,
kango's stein massive,
the Germs,
Eric Copeland,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
The Techniques,
The Gladiators,
The Invisible,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
K-Klass,
Niagra,
Eric B and Rakim,
Deakin,
The Modern Lovers,
Circle Jerks,
Eden Ahbez,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Spoonie Gee,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Television Personalities,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Bobby Sherman,
Metal Thangz,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
AZ,
Throbbing Gristle,
Gabor Szabo,
Sällskapet,
Rhythm & Sound, Rhythm & Sound, Rhythm & Sound, Rhythm & 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.