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 Barbados and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1962 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Manchester.
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 1971 at the first Neu! practice in a loft in Düsseldorf.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Slave to the grime 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 Glambeats Corp.. All the underground hits.
All the Normal tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rapeman record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Niagra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jandek,
The Litter,
Public Image Ltd.,
Negative Approach,
Pere Ubu,
Joe Smooth,
Tom Boy,
Eric Dolphy,
the Association,
Grandmaster Flash,
Inner City,
Anthony Braxton,
Yazoo,
Ken Boothe,
Intrusion,
Slick Rick,
New Age Steppers,
Joe Finger,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Little Man,
Susan Cadogan,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Dead Boys,
The Martian,
Echospace,
Deakin,
Newcleus,
Tres Demented,
The American Breed,
Zero Boys,
Rites of Spring,
The Fugs,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The New Christs,
Blancmange,
Wings,
Ultravox,
Hashim,
Derrick Morgan,
Fad Gadget,
Roxy Music,
The Alarm Clocks,
Niagra,
The Move,
Gang Green,
Pole,
Sarah Menescal,
The Knickerbockers,
Average White Band,
Silicon Teens,
Soul II Soul,
Vladislav Delay,
Drive Like Jehu,
Animal Collective,
Bill Wells,
Scratch Acid,
Donald Byrd,
Rosa Yemen,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Barracudas,
Sällskapet, Sällskapet, Sällskapet, Sällskapet.
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.