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 Samoa and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1961 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Red Lorry Yellow Lorry to the punk 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 Sarah Menescal. All the underground hits.
All Y Pants tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every K-Klass 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Morten Harket record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Fifty Foot Hose,
Tommy Roe,
Joy Division,
Jimmy McGriff,
Bobby Womack,
Ponytail,
David McCallum,
Susan Cadogan,
Easy Going,
Ten City,
Faraquet,
Suicide,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Young Rascals,
FM Einheit,
Tomorrow,
Lalo Schifrin,
Joensuu 1685,
Eric Dolphy,
Eve St. Jones,
The Cure,
Laurel Aitken,
Idris Muhammad,
Masters at Work,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Eden Ahbez,
Youth Brigade,
New Age Steppers,
Thee Headcoats,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Grey Daturas,
Pussy Galore,
Gichy Dan,
Lebanon Hanover,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Robert Wyatt,
Thompson Twins,
The Trojans,
Chrome,
Frankie Knuckles,
Bobby Sherman,
Cluster,
Kas Product,
Bauhaus,
Mars,
cv313,
Sugar Minott,
The Moleskins,
Aswad,
China Crisis,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Smoke,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Amazonics,
Cybotron,
Josef K,
Camouflage,
Alton Ellis,
The Move,
Swans,
Ornette Coleman,
Television,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band, Lafayette Afro Rock Band, Lafayette Afro Rock Band, Lafayette Afro Rock Band.
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.