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 Colombia and from Stockholm.
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 1969 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Sisters of Mercy to the crunk 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 Eric B and Rakim. All the underground hits.
All Urselle tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Neu! record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 an oboe and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Standells record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Scrapy,
Matthew Halsall,
Piero Umiliani,
Technova,
Josef K,
Eden Ahbez,
Aswad,
Moss Icon,
Pantaleimon,
Tres Demented,
KRS-One,
Boz Scaggs,
Funkadelic,
Subhumans,
cv313,
Absolute Body Control,
Brand Nubian,
Crime,
Negative Approach,
The Last Poets,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Doors,
Slick Rick,
Lungfish,
DJ Style,
Motorama,
Sun City Girls,
John Foxx,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Danielle Patucci,
Junior Murvin,
Mo-Dettes,
Wire,
Oblivians,
Excepter,
New York Dolls,
The Beau Brummels,
Sonny Sharrock,
Das Ding,
Freddie Wadling,
Rufus Thomas,
Zero Boys,
Depeche Mode,
Letta Mbulu,
The Sound,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
China Crisis,
Flash Fearless,
Country Teasers,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
8 Eyed Spy,
Joe Smooth,
Interpol,
Susan Cadogan,
Harmonia,
Adolescents,
Blake Baxter,
Colin Newman,
Chris & Cosey,
Idris Muhammad,
The Slits,
H. Thieme, H. Thieme, H. Thieme, H. Thieme.
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.