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 Burkina and from Tehran.
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 1967 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 This Heat to the techno 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 Index. All the underground hits.
All Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ohio Players record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 rhodes and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Model 500 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Hot Snakes,
Symarip,
Au Pairs,
The Walker Brothers,
Joe Smooth,
Warren Ellis,
Negative Approach,
Whodini,
Big Daddy Kane,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Massinfluence,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Monks,
Rhythm & Sound,
Stetsasonic,
Second Layer,
Alton Ellis,
X-101,
Marvin Gaye,
Bizarre Inc.,
the Swans,
DJ Sneak,
The Misunderstood,
Funky Four + One,
Bill Wells,
Stiv Bators,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Loose Ends,
DJ Style,
Tubeway Army,
The Detroit Cobras,
The Cowsills,
The Smoke,
Section 25,
Zapp,
Drive Like Jehu,
Don Cherry,
Swans,
Aloha Tigers,
Joe Finger,
Sonny Sharrock,
X-Ray Spex,
Guru Guru,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Bobby Hutcherson,
B.T. Express,
Man Eating Sloth,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Donald Byrd,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Von Mondo,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Nas,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Wake,
Pagans,
Groovy Waters,
Public Enemy,
Lalann,
Half Japanese, Half Japanese, Half Japanese, Half Japanese.
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.