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 Palau and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1969 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 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 Gong to the rap 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 The Saints. All the underground hits.
All Tim Buckley tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Gap Band record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Associates record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nas,
Kenny Larkin,
The Blues Magoos,
Audionom,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Fire Engines,
Pere Ubu,
Duran Duran,
Flash Fearless,
Oneida,
Dual Sessions,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Gang of Four,
The American Breed,
The Associates,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Metal Thangz,
Harmonia,
Whodini,
Quando Quango,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Adolescents,
Zapp,
Cheater Slicks,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Girls At Our Best!,
Funky Four + One,
Donald Byrd,
Deakin,
China Crisis,
The Pop Group,
ABC,
Man Eating Sloth,
Bill Near,
Spandau Ballet,
Aloha Tigers,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Saccharine Trust,
Scott Walker,
Soft Cell,
The Residents,
Lalann,
Robert Wyatt,
Unwound,
The Monks,
Jerry's Kids,
The Vogues,
Nirvana,
Freddie Wadling,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Shadows of Knight,
Danielle Patucci,
X-Ray Spex,
Alice Coltrane,
Visage,
Dawn Penn,
Chris & Cosey,
Second Layer,
Agent Orange,
London Community Gospel Choir,
The Gap Band,
The Sonics, The Sonics, The Sonics, The Sonics.
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.