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 Tuvalu and from Copenhagen.
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 1961 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Kool G Rap & DJ Polo to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five. All the underground hits.
All Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 sitar and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sun Ra Arkestra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Knickerbockers,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
La Düsseldorf,
Skaos,
Das Ding,
The Tremeloes,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Walker Brothers,
Stereo Dub,
Rites of Spring,
Nico,
Camberwell Now,
The Doors,
Stetsasonic,
Fifty Foot Hose,
China Crisis,
Terrestrial Tones,
Rod Modell,
Metal Thangz,
The Electric Prunes,
Electric Prunes,
Scan 7,
Throbbing Gristle,
Lebanon Hanover,
Hardrive,
Tomorrow,
Sugar Minott,
Crispy Ambulance,
Minnie Riperton,
Soft Cell,
Suicide,
Public Enemy,
Tears for Fears,
Todd Rundgren,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Remains,
The Toasters,
Eli Mardock,
Michelle Simonal,
Massinfluence,
Barclay James Harvest,
Lalo Schifrin,
10cc,
the Slits,
The Count Five,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
the Association,
The Fire Engines,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Martian,
Popol Vuh,
Spoonie Gee,
The Gladiators,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Selecter,
D'Angelo,
Brothers Johnson,
The Durutti Column,
David Bowie,
Marine Girls,
The Birthday Party,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Isaac Hayes, Isaac Hayes, Isaac Hayes, Isaac Hayes.
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.