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 Senegal 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 1967 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 Mad Mike to the grime kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Wings. All the underground hits.
All Banda Bassotti tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nas 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Massinfluence record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Doors,
Silicon Teens,
This Heat,
Grauzone,
Kaleidoscope,
Motorama,
Das Ding,
Amazonics,
The Index,
Schoolly D,
Prince Buster,
Yazoo,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Alarm Clocks,
Khruangbin,
Stiv Bators,
Underground Resistance,
The Beau Brummels,
Bush Tetras,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Cybotron,
The Velvet Underground,
Glenn Branca,
Agent Orange,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Soul Sonic Force,
Supertramp,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Nik Kershaw,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Barbara Tucker,
Ludus,
Section 25,
Royal Trux,
Eden Ahbez,
Goldenarms,
Black Pus,
Delon & Dalcan,
The New Christs,
Gastr Del Sol,
Warsaw,
Hardrive,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Rod Modell,
Mr. Review,
Joe Smooth,
Hot Snakes,
Pere Ubu,
The Grass Roots,
Jandek,
Camberwell Now,
Eric Dolphy,
R.M.O.,
the Slits,
Subhumans,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
OOIOO,
the Human League,
The Gories,
The Smoke, The Smoke, The Smoke, The Smoke.
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.