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 Brunei and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1962 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 Sex Pistols to the punk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Graham Central Station. All the underground hits.
All Scrapy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Marine Girls record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 808 and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a kango's stein massive record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Carl Craig,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Lucky Dragons,
Hashim,
Das Ding,
Zapp,
Procol Harum,
Howard Jones,
The Mummies,
Underground Resistance,
Rotary Connection,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Reagan Youth,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Moss Icon,
Cal Tjader,
Scratch Acid,
Tommy Roe,
Outsiders,
Oneida,
Chrome,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Japan,
Reuben Wilson,
Silicon Teens,
the Germs,
D'Angelo,
The Selecter,
Derrick May,
The Fall,
The Shadows of Knight,
Basic Channel,
Godley & Creme,
E-Dancer,
Groovy Waters,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Monochrome Set,
Scion,
Neil Young,
Kas Product,
Iggy Pop,
Sound Behaviour,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Talk Talk,
Mary Jane Girls,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Alice Coltrane,
Neu!,
Danielle Patucci,
10cc,
Eli Mardock,
Brand Nubian,
H. Thieme,
Echospace,
Supertramp,
Lungfish,
Symarip,
The Monks,
Pierre Henry,
Fad Gadget,
Heaven 17,
Niagra, Niagra, Niagra, Niagra.
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.