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 Slovenia and from Shanghai.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the guitar 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 Tom Boy to the techno kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Spandau Ballet. All the underground hits.
All Hashim tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Hashim record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 sitar and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Main Source record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Motions,
Throbbing Gristle,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Janne Schatter,
Qualms,
Minor Threat,
Wings,
Symarip,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Flash Fearless,
Cecil Taylor,
The Techniques,
Magma,
Ken Boothe,
Public Enemy,
Sparks,
Quantec,
These Immortal Souls,
Siglo XX,
The Walker Brothers,
Sonic Youth,
Aloha Tigers,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Funkadelic,
The Red Krayola,
Gong,
Darondo,
Slave,
Curtis Mayfield,
Bobby Womack,
E-Dancer,
Zero Boys,
Harpers Bizarre,
Idris Muhammad,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Lower 48,
Delta 5,
Outsiders,
Roxy Music,
Quando Quango,
Sister Nancy,
Glenn Branca,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Sonny Sharrock,
Fad Gadget,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Terrestrial Tones,
Graham Central Station,
Radio Birdman,
Anthony Braxton,
Dave Gahan,
Sällskapet,
Loose Ends,
Motorama,
Q65,
Pet Shop Boys,
Cameo,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Second Layer,
The Trojans, The Trojans, The Trojans, The Trojans.
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.