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 Marshall Islands and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1965 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 linndrum 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 Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Brand Nubian. All the underground hits.
All Charles Mingus tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sly & The Family Stone record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Grauzone record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joe Smooth,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Big Daddy Kane,
Simply Red,
Al Stewart,
David Axelrod,
Arab on Radar,
Thompson Twins,
Arcadia,
Lightning Bolt,
R.M.O.,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Khruangbin,
Letta Mbulu,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Ituana,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
MDC,
Ronnie Foster,
The Grass Roots,
Ultravox,
The Trojans,
The Zeros,
Royal Trux,
Vainqueur,
Au Pairs,
Aural Exciters,
K-Klass,
Youth Brigade,
Frankie Knuckles,
Colin Newman,
Qualms,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Ornette Coleman,
Eden Ahbez,
Fela Kuti,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Happenings,
Unwound,
This Heat,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Tears for Fears,
Moby Grape,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Ten City,
Rapeman,
Todd Terry,
Pantaleimon,
Cymande,
Shoche,
Tomorrow,
Crispy Ambulance,
Sex Pistols,
Robert Görl,
Radio Birdman,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Monolake,
Fear,
Bill Wells,
Deepchord, Deepchord, Deepchord, Deepchord.
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.