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 Delhi.
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 1965 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 1970 at the first Onyeabor practice in a loft in Enugu.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Music Machine to the jazz kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 June of 44. All the underground hits.
All Boz Scaggs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Monks 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Marc Almond record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Cabaret Voltaire,
Bauhaus,
Susan Cadogan,
The Names,
Gang Starr,
Kerri Chandler,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Sex Pistols,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Radio Birdman,
Kaleidoscope,
Joe Smooth,
Barbara Tucker,
Leonard Cohen,
Harpers Bizarre,
Dawn Penn,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Lalo Schifrin,
Los Fastidios,
Tim Buckley,
The Star Department,
Saccharine Trust,
Pulsallama,
Al Stewart,
Alphaville,
Marshall Jefferson,
Circle Jerks,
Lalann,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Ituana,
Terrestrial Tones,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Wings,
The Human League,
Bluetip,
The Knickerbockers,
The Birthday Party,
Icehouse,
Throbbing Gristle,
The Red Krayola,
X-Ray Spex,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Mandrill,
Dave Gahan,
John Coltrane,
The Busters,
T.S.O.L.,
Eve St. Jones,
Morten Harket,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Searchers,
The Gun Club,
Nico,
Toni Rubio,
Outsiders,
Subhumans,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Popol Vuh,
In Retrospect,
Absolute Body Control,
Aswad,
Soft Cell,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.