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 Poland and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 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 Josef K to the rap kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Aural Exciters. All the underground hits.
All The Fire Engines tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Harmonia record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Blake Baxter record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Thompson Twins,
Althea and Donna,
Rites of Spring,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Searchers,
The Gladiators,
China Crisis,
Vainqueur,
Ultravox,
The Stooges,
Stetsasonic,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Rapeman,
Blake Baxter,
The Alarm Clocks,
Siglo XX,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Scientists,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Jimmy McGriff,
Warren Ellis,
Fat Boys,
Hashim,
Hasil Adkins,
Altered Images,
Jawbox,
John Cale,
Inner City,
Janne Schatter,
Television,
Gregory Isaacs,
Amon Düül II,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Clear Light,
The Wake,
Sight & Sound,
Barry Ungar,
The Happenings,
Negative Approach,
Lyres,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
The Selecter,
The Associates,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Infiniti,
Quantec,
Colin Newman,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Kas Product,
Crispian St. Peters,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Fugs,
Reagan Youth,
a-ha,
The Human League,
Eden Ahbez,
The Dave Clark Five,
Lucky Dragons,
the Bar-Kays,
Zapp,
Lightning Bolt,
Slave,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Joensuu 1685, Joensuu 1685, Joensuu 1685, Joensuu 1685.
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.