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 Togo and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1960 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 1971 at the first Neu! practice in a loft in Düsseldorf.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 The Associates to the grunge 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 Harpers Bizarre. All the underground hits.
All Ice-T tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cybotron 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 synthesizer and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cybotron record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Marmalade,
Newcleus,
Crispian St. Peters,
Tomorrow,
Gang Green,
The Offenders,
Ossler,
Groovy Waters,
The Cramps,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Sandy B,
The Leaves,
Gregory Isaacs,
Scan 7,
Minor Threat,
Subhumans,
Crime,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Skaos,
Animal Collective,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Maurizio,
Lalo Schifrin,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Gichy Dan,
Patti Smith,
Slave,
Unrelated Segments,
Television Personalities,
Los Fastidios,
Trumans Water,
LL Cool J,
Black Bananas,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Lou Reed,
Flipper,
Ultimate Spinach,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Thompson Twins,
Robert Hood,
Joey Negro,
Agitation Free,
Godley & Creme,
FM Einheit,
Ralphi Rosario,
Main Source,
KRS-One,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Barbara Tucker,
Intrusion,
Donald Byrd,
the Sonics,
Robert Görl,
Grey Daturas,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Andrew Hill,
Quantec,
The Durutti Column,
Colin Newman, Colin Newman, Colin Newman, Colin Newman.
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.