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 Ecuador and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Art Ensemble Of Chicago to the punk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Joe Finger. All the underground hits.
All Mantronix tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Warren Ellis record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 rhodes and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Chris & Cosey record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Flash Fearless,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
L. Decosne,
Rakim,
Bad Manners,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Buckinghams,
John Foxx,
Crash Course in Science,
June Days,
Roxy Music,
Pulsallama,
Audionom,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
A Certain Ratio,
Wings,
Essential Logic,
Sparks,
The Martian,
Darondo,
The Angels of Light,
Black Pus,
Fear,
Little Man,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Bobby Byrd,
Mary Jane Girls,
Hashim,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Pylon,
Icehouse,
Todd Terry,
Das Ding,
Pierre Henry,
Charles Mingus,
Lou Christie,
Radio Birdman,
Johnny Clarke,
Mad Mike,
Surgeon,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Red Krayola,
Au Pairs,
Crime,
Black Sheep,
Lee Hazlewood,
Michelle Simonal,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Cabaret Voltaire,
This Heat,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Kenny Larkin,
Arab on Radar,
Roy Ayers,
Soulsonic Force,
Eddi Front,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Velvet Underground,
The Saints,
The Standells,
Lightning Bolt,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Nik Kershaw,
T.S.O.L., T.S.O.L., T.S.O.L., T.S.O.L..
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.