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 South Sudan and from Houston.
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 1963 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Bad Manners to the jazz 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 Radiohead. All the underground hits.
All Max Romeo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lucky Dragons record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kas Product,
Chrome,
The Standells,
The Dave Clark Five,
Lalo Schifrin,
Dual Sessions,
In Retrospect,
Mission of Burma,
Pet Shop Boys,
Johnny Clarke,
48th St. Collective,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Freddie Wadling,
Sixth Finger,
10cc,
Y Pants,
Bill Wells,
Pagans,
Carl Craig,
Pere Ubu,
The Names,
Heaven 17,
Harry Pussy,
Warsaw,
Alice Coltrane,
Lebanon Hanover,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Albert Ayler,
Oblivians,
Eyeless In Gaza,
The United States of America,
Whodini,
the Association,
Delta 5,
The Happenings,
Peter and Kerry,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Steve Hackett,
Marmalade,
Make Up,
Archie Shepp,
Panda Bear,
Charles Mingus,
Kenny Larkin,
Con Funk Shun,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
New Age Steppers,
Siglo XX,
Pierre Henry,
Kevin Saunderson,
Livin' Joy,
Desert Stars,
The Velvet Underground,
MC5,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Lindisfarne,
Eurythmics,
Brand Nubian,
The Gladiators,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Los Fastidios,
Wings,
Sun Ra Arkestra, Sun Ra Arkestra, Sun Ra Arkestra, Sun Ra Arkestra.
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.