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 Ukraine and from Woodstock.
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 1963 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 linndrum 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 Sex Pistols to the disco kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Bauhaus. All the underground hits.
All Bill Wells tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Y Pants record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lalann record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Colin Newman,
Spoonie Gee,
The Moleskins,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Scratch Acid,
the Human League,
Grauzone,
Delon & Dalcan,
Funkadelic,
Buzzcocks,
In Retrospect,
Second Layer,
Mary Jane Girls,
Minny Pops,
Ponytail,
Aaron Thompson,
Jesper Dahlback,
Bronski Beat,
Joensuu 1685,
Sonic Youth,
Swell Maps,
Trumans Water,
Moss Icon,
New Age Steppers,
The Pop Group,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Radiohead,
X-Ray Spex,
Icehouse,
The Martian,
Minor Threat,
Toni Rubio,
Boredoms,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Connie Case,
Kaleidoscope,
CMW,
Pharoah Sanders,
Amazonics,
Chris & Cosey,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Terry Callier,
The Electric Prunes,
Kayak,
Quando Quango,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Von Mondo,
Eddi Front,
X-101,
Big Daddy Kane,
New York Dolls,
Slave,
Davy DMX,
Lalann,
James White and The Blacks,
Nick Fraelich,
Susan Cadogan,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Johnny Clarke,
Wasted Youth,
Yaz,
MDC, MDC, MDC, MDC.
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.