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 Libya and from Portland.
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 1966 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 ABC to the funk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Pylon. All the underground hits.
All Newcleus tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pierre Henry 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Niagra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The United States of America,
Crash Course in Science,
Camberwell Now,
Drexciya,
Piero Umiliani,
Negative Approach,
The Young Rascals,
Agitation Free,
Roy Ayers,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Spoonie Gee,
Barclay James Harvest,
Sällskapet,
Royal Trux,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
The Doobie Brothers,
cv313,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Todd Terry,
Chrome,
Harpers Bizarre,
Todd Rundgren,
Ralphi Rosario,
Technova,
Trumans Water,
The Gladiators,
Cal Tjader,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Animal Collective,
Robert Wyatt,
Aaron Thompson,
The Cowsills,
UT,
Tim Buckley,
Anthony Braxton,
Tropical Tobacco,
Underground Resistance,
Gil Scott Heron,
Accadde A,
Junior Murvin,
Das Ding,
A Flock of Seagulls,
The Cramps,
John Coltrane,
The Kinks,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Gap Band,
Oneida,
Aswad,
Deepchord,
Hardrive,
Joe Smooth,
Black Pus,
Ten City,
Boogie Down Productions,
Amazonics,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Girls At Our Best!,
Ludus,
Rites of Spring,
Marcia Griffiths,
Yazoo,
Quando Quango, Quando Quango, Quando Quango, Quando Quango.
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.