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 Uganda and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1966 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 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 The Sound to the electroclash kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Yaz. All the underground hits.
All Rakim tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lightning Bolt record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
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 DeepChord presents Echospace record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Porter Ricks,
Scion,
Shuggie Otis,
Lee Hazlewood,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Dual Sessions,
New Order,
Bauhaus,
The Fall,
DJ Sneak,
Audionom,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
China Crisis,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Matthew Bourne,
Kevin Saunderson,
Maleditus Sound,
MC5,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Slits,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Sixth Finger,
Newcleus,
Fatback Band,
Sex Pistols,
Todd Rundgren,
Malaria!,
Derrick Morgan,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Marvin Gaye,
Pylon,
Babytalk,
Sound Behaviour,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Clear Light,
Aswad,
This Heat,
Sparks,
ABBA,
Wolf Eyes,
Yazoo,
Marine Girls,
Banda Bassotti,
Barbara Tucker,
Skaos,
The Misunderstood,
Kayak,
Traffic Nightmare,
Cal Tjader,
Buzzcocks,
Ituana,
Flamin' Groovies,
Eve St. Jones,
The Knickerbockers,
Nirvana,
The Fire Engines,
Ornette Coleman,
Tres Demented,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Associates,
Joey Negro, Joey Negro, Joey Negro, Joey Negro.
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.