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 Seychelles and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 Tom Verlaine 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 Jerry Gold Smith to the grime kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Maurizio. All the underground hits.
All Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Radiohead 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Quantec record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joe Finger,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Grandmaster Flash,
K-Klass,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Suicide,
The Velvet Underground,
John Coltrane,
Brand Nubian,
Lungfish,
Scott Walker,
Loose Ends,
Frankie Knuckles,
The Black Dice,
Ultravox,
Groovy Waters,
Oblivians,
48th St. Collective,
Alphaville,
Gang Gang Dance,
Aural Exciters,
Magazine,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Radio Birdman,
Glambeats Corp.,
Wasted Youth,
The Evens,
Roger Hodgson,
Electric Prunes,
Harpers Bizarre,
Panda Bear,
Nirvana,
Bobby Byrd,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Gap Band,
Eric Copeland,
Marshall Jefferson,
Ultimate Spinach,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Tres Demented,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Barrington Levy,
Sonny Sharrock,
Goldenarms,
Roy Ayers,
Anthony Braxton,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Con Funk Shun,
Shoche,
Echospace,
Q and Not U,
Gong,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
KRS-One,
Minnie Riperton,
Davy DMX,
Joey Negro,
Eric Dolphy,
Roxette, Roxette, Roxette, Roxette.
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.