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 Vietnam and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 Tehran and Lille.
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 1971 at the first Neu! practice in a loft in Düsseldorf.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Eric Dolphy to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Radiohead. All the underground hits.
All 10cc tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Peter & Gordon record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 a theremin and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sunsets and Hearts record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dual Sessions,
Tom Boy,
Quando Quango,
Josef K,
F. McDonald,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Howard Jones,
Brothers Johnson,
Absolute Body Control,
Johnny Clarke,
Black Flag,
Kas Product,
Matthew Bourne,
Derrick Morgan,
Television,
China Crisis,
The Smiths,
Bluetip,
The Blues Magoos,
Sugar Minott,
Can,
The Raincoats,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The J.B.'s,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Stockholm Monsters,
Rosa Yemen,
Black Sheep,
Fad Gadget,
Tubeway Army,
Sound Behaviour,
Eric Copeland,
Althea and Donna,
Goldenarms,
the Normal,
The Standells,
Malaria!,
Ralphi Rosario,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Human League,
Echospace,
Aloha Tigers,
U.S. Maple,
Wolf Eyes,
Hot Snakes,
Monolake,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Little Man,
Soulsonic Force,
The Move,
The Searchers,
DJ Style,
Interpol,
Slave,
Prince Buster,
Pere Ubu,
Boredoms,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Toni Rubio,
Marcia Griffiths,
Q and Not U,
Soft Machine,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines, Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines, Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines, Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines.
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.