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 Papua New Guinea and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Lou Christie to the grunge kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Black Bananas. All the underground hits.
All Henry Cow tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bobby Byrd record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Glenn Branca record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Depeche Mode,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Excepter,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Duran Duran,
The Moody Blues,
Monks,
Mad Mike,
Index,
10cc,
Hardrive,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Barracudas,
Roxy Music,
Public Image Ltd.,
Aloha Tigers,
D'Angelo,
Q65,
Dawn Penn,
The Sonics,
Mandrill,
Albert Ayler,
Television,
Kas Product,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Groovy Waters,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Star Department,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Robert Görl,
The Slits,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Smiths,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Moleskins,
Davy DMX,
The Busters,
The Kinks,
Matthew Halsall,
Michelle Simonal,
Terry Callier,
The Trojans,
Angry Samoans,
Gong,
The Fuzztones,
Hashim,
JFA,
Camberwell Now,
Soul II Soul,
Rod Modell,
Second Layer,
Slick Rick,
The Index,
Infiniti,
Chris & Cosey,
Cameo,
Livin' Joy,
Marcia Griffiths,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Lungfish,
ABBA,
T. Rex,
The Pop Group,
The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Jesus and Mary Chain.
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.