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 Mexico and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 arpeggiator 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 Main Source to the funk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Gregory Isaacs. All the underground hits.
All Patti Smith tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Techniques record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 clarinet and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Fad Gadget record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
One Last Wish,
Outsiders,
La Düsseldorf,
Prince Buster,
Duran Duran,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Detroit Cobras,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Curtis Mayfield,
Dark Day,
Silicon Teens,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Moleskins,
Bizarre Inc.,
Derrick May,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Trojans,
Organ,
Piero Umiliani,
Lebanon Hanover,
Average White Band,
Jacob Miller,
Livin' Joy,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Techniques,
Audionom,
The Last Poets,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
The J.B.'s,
Nirvana,
The Seeds,
DNA,
The Busters,
Rapeman,
Max Romeo,
Yellowson,
Ken Boothe,
The Fire Engines,
Gerry Rafferty,
Soul Sonic Force,
Quadrant,
Morten Harket,
The Doors,
Public Image Ltd.,
Youth Brigade,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Gastr Del Sol,
Aaron Thompson,
The Red Krayola,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Chrome,
Dennis Brown,
Harmonia,
FM Einheit,
In Retrospect,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Grass Roots,
Blossom Toes,
Lightning Bolt,
Harpers Bizarre,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo, Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo, Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo, Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo.
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.