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 Paraguay and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1966 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Spokane.
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 1971 at the first Neu! practice in a loft in Düsseldorf.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Delon & Dalcan to the techno 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 Ken Boothe. All the underground hits.
All The Cure tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every David McCallum record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Agitation Free,
Jerry's Kids,
Rakim,
In Retrospect,
Dave Gahan,
Visage,
Inner City,
Khruangbin,
Pierre Henry,
James White and The Blacks,
Sun City Girls,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Stereo Dub,
Niagra,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Los Fastidios,
Skriet,
MC5,
Piero Umiliani,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Newcleus,
Nation of Ulysses,
H. Thieme,
Erasure,
Faust,
Sound Behaviour,
The Remains,
Terry Callier,
Warsaw,
Eric B and Rakim,
Isaac Hayes,
The Five Americans,
Patti Smith,
Minnie Riperton,
Basic Channel,
New Age Steppers,
Cecil Taylor,
B.T. Express,
Curtis Mayfield,
the Germs,
the Normal,
K-Klass,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Scrapy,
The Gun Club,
Half Japanese,
Jimmy McGriff,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Swans,
Alice Coltrane,
Camberwell Now,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Motorama,
Pagans,
Mantronix,
Ultravox,
The American Breed,
Amon Düül,
The Flesh Eaters,
Nas,
Skarface,
Bizarre Inc.,
Susan Cadogan, Susan Cadogan, Susan Cadogan, Susan Cadogan.
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.