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 Guatemala and from Cairo.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the snare 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 Vladislav Delay to the punk 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 K-Klass. All the underground hits.
All Yazoo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Max Romeo record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Urselle record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pantytec,
Animal Collective,
The Stooges,
Oneida,
Yusef Lateef,
Little Man,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Theoretical Girls,
Radiohead,
Byron Stingily,
Jesper Dahlback,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
kango's stein massive,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Josef K,
Al Stewart,
Loose Ends,
Deadbeat,
Skaos,
the Sonics,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Hot Snakes,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
F. McDonald,
Warren Ellis,
Judy Mowatt,
Popol Vuh,
Girls At Our Best!,
Pet Shop Boys,
Moby Grape,
Alice Coltrane,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Television,
Von Mondo,
Average White Band,
The Kinks,
Aswad,
The Happenings,
The Busters,
Joey Negro,
Howard Jones,
Michelle Simonal,
Erasure,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Roger Hodgson,
Ultimate Spinach,
Main Source,
Wasted Youth,
the Fania All-Stars,
Dark Day,
Avey Tare,
Arab on Radar,
Soul II Soul,
Rhythm & Sound,
Youth Brigade,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Grauzone,
Ultravox,
The Residents,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Simply Red, Simply Red, Simply Red, Simply Red.
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.