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 Malta and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1964 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 mellotron 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 Circle Jerks to the crunk 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 Robert Wyatt. All the underground hits.
All Yazoo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every It's A Beautiful Day 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Roy Ayers Ubiquity record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Animal Collective,
Lalann,
Soul Sonic Force,
Josef K,
Lalo Schifrin,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Swell Maps,
Q and Not U,
the Germs,
Chrome,
Television Personalities,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Fall,
Toni Rubio,
Parry Music,
One Last Wish,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Kas Product,
Yazoo,
Television,
Curtis Mayfield,
These Immortal Souls,
Albert Ayler,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Isaac Hayes,
the Bar-Kays,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
B.T. Express,
Marshall Jefferson,
Barbara Tucker,
Lower 48,
Prince Buster,
Cecil Taylor,
Gang Green,
Skarface,
R.M.O.,
Mad Mike,
Bush Tetras,
Chris Corsano,
The Wake,
Lungfish,
Hoover,
Fear,
Mantronix,
T.S.O.L.,
Hashim,
Babytalk,
Marine Girls,
The Count Five,
Lou Reed,
Andrew Hill,
The Neon Judgement,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Warsaw,
Deadbeat,
Sugar Minott,
Sexual Harrassment,
Desert Stars,
The American Breed,
Minor Threat,
The Toasters,
Gastr Del Sol,
Lightning Bolt,
Mission of Burma, Mission of Burma, Mission of Burma, Mission of Burma.
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.