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 Kosovo and from Seoul.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 1983 at the first Bronski Beat practice in a loft in Brixton.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Carl Craig to the rock 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 Graham Central Station. All the underground hits.
All David McCallum tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bill Wells record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 theremin and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cluster record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Marcia Griffiths,
Black Flag,
Motorama,
Bad Manners,
Erykah Badu,
Joy Division,
Fela Kuti,
Andrew Hill,
Magazine,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Television,
Vladislav Delay,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Nick Fraelich,
Ultimate Spinach,
MDC,
Cybotron,
Flamin' Groovies,
Joey Negro,
Fad Gadget,
Hot Snakes,
The Move,
The Monochrome Set,
Stiv Bators,
Interpol,
Todd Rundgren,
X-102,
The Busters,
Crooked Eye,
Connie Case,
8 Eyed Spy,
10cc,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Standells,
Urselle,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Eden Ahbez,
Rufus Thomas,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Cal Tjader,
The Misunderstood,
EPMD,
Goldenarms,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Patti Smith,
Public Enemy,
China Crisis,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Rapeman,
Minor Threat,
Pharoah Sanders,
David Bowie,
Drive Like Jehu,
Ossler,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Livin' Joy,
Aaron Thompson,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Ituana,
Graham Central Station,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Quadrant,
Brick,
Piero Umiliani, Piero Umiliani, Piero Umiliani, Piero Umiliani.
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.