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 Kyrgyzstan and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage 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 1962 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 snare 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 Television Personalities to the grunge 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 Public Image Ltd.. All the underground hits.
All Derrick May tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Boredoms 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Todd Terry record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bush Tetras,
Pole,
Ohio Players,
Lou Christie,
Japan,
Junior Murvin,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Underground Resistance,
Easy Going,
Radiopuhelimet,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Count Five,
Grandmaster Flash,
Arab on Radar,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Young Rascals,
The Remains,
Arcadia,
Altered Images,
Boz Scaggs,
Tim Buckley,
Ultravox,
Echospace,
Tropical Tobacco,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Matthew Halsall,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Rhythm & Sound,
Dark Day,
Dual Sessions,
Buzzcocks,
The Beau Brummels,
the Normal,
The Leaves,
Lucky Dragons,
Big Daddy Kane,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
U.S. Maple,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Fatback Band,
Sugar Minott,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Kayak,
John Lydon,
Davy DMX,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Modern Lovers,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Althea and Donna,
Thompson Twins,
Andrew Hill,
Jesper Dahlback,
Joensuu 1685,
Eric Dolphy,
Yazoo,
Masters at Work,
The Monochrome Set,
Cheater Slicks,
David Bowie,
Khruangbin,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Loose Ends,
Gregory Isaacs,
Traffic Nightmare,
Franke, Franke, Franke, Franke.
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.