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 East Timor and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1962 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Stockholm.
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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Cluster to the disco kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Audionom. All the underground hits.
All Boz Scaggs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dual Sessions record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Barrington Levy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Brand Nubian,
New Order,
Symarip,
Harmonia,
Pharoah Sanders,
Y Pants,
The Associates,
Excepter,
Slave,
Stockholm Monsters,
Television,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Sexual Harrassment,
Pylon,
The Residents,
Au Pairs,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Rekid,
Blake Baxter,
The Offenders,
Quadrant,
Public Image Ltd.,
Sandy B,
Don Cherry,
Fear,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Sun City Girls,
Alphaville,
Thee Headcoats,
Underground Resistance,
Erykah Badu,
Boz Scaggs,
Tim Buckley,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Joey Negro,
Lou Christie,
Gregory Isaacs,
Ronnie Foster,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Depeche Mode,
The Young Rascals,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Nick Fraelich,
Banda Bassotti,
PIL,
Camberwell Now,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Michelle Simonal,
Maurizio,
Model 500,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
This Heat,
Warren Ellis,
Fugazi,
Boredoms,
Sparks,
Janne Schatter,
The Victims,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental 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.