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 Djibouti and from Stockholm.
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 Accra and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Symarip to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Josef K. All the underground hits.
All Shoche tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every June of 44 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Mojo Men record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Main Source,
Q and Not U,
CMW,
The Kinks,
Skarface,
Johnny Osbourne,
Adolescents,
Matthew Halsall,
Ossler,
Flipper,
The United States of America,
KRS-One,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Fear,
The Shadows of Knight,
Altered Images,
Surgeon,
Tim Buckley,
Spoonie Gee,
the Human League,
Minnie Riperton,
H. Thieme,
Nico,
Guru Guru,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Schoolly D,
The Selecter,
Barbara Tucker,
Derrick Morgan,
Banda Bassotti,
Freddie Wadling,
Mars,
The Cramps,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Jacques Brel,
A Certain Ratio,
the Swans,
Max Romeo,
The Dead C,
The Doobie Brothers,
Kevin Saunderson,
Darondo,
AZ,
Big Daddy Kane,
Vladislav Delay,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Lyres,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Scan 7,
The Zeros,
Swans,
The Doors,
The New Christs,
Stereo Dub,
Newcleus,
Don Cherry,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Marmalade,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
E-Dancer, E-Dancer, E-Dancer, E-Dancer.
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.