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 Madagascar and from Toronto.
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 1964 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Carl Craig to the crunk 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 The Residents. All the underground hits.
All Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every 48th St. Collective record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 harpsichord and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ohio Players record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Minor Threat,
Henry Cow,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Desert Stars,
Fluxion,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Theoretical Girls,
Jacob Miller,
Derrick Morgan,
The Music Machine,
the Germs,
Average White Band,
Drexciya,
B.T. Express,
Todd Terry,
Camberwell Now,
Visage,
Sugar Minott,
Idris Muhammad,
The Names,
Barclay James Harvest,
Popol Vuh,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Banda Bassotti,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Adolescents,
Amazonics,
Mandrill,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Pylon,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Moleskins,
Swans,
Bush Tetras,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Graham Central Station,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Walker Brothers,
Althea and Donna,
Max Romeo,
L. Decosne,
Unwound,
Colin Newman,
Fear,
Severed Heads,
Rekid,
Johnny Osbourne,
Glenn Branca,
Jesper Dahlback,
Fatback Band,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
China Crisis,
The Smiths,
Tubeway Army,
The Associates,
Thee Headcoats,
Model 500,
The Velvet Underground,
Motorama,
The Stooges,
Massinfluence,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Bang On A Can,
Guru Guru, Guru Guru, Guru Guru, Guru Guru.
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.