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 Swaziland and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 Philadelphia and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Underground Resistance to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Negative Approach. All the underground hits.
All Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Derrick Morgan record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Traffic Nightmare record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Frankie Knuckles,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Niagra,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Bush Tetras,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Electric Prunes,
The Associates,
Sam Rivers,
Eric Dolphy,
Khruangbin,
Roxette,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Skriet,
The Searchers,
Stetsasonic,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Brick,
Marine Girls,
A Certain Ratio,
Soulsonic Force,
The Martian,
Silicon Teens,
Amon Düül,
Tommy Roe,
Lee Hazlewood,
Gabor Szabo,
Scott Walker,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Deadbeat,
The Slackers,
Oblivians,
Juan Atkins,
Newcleus,
Lungfish,
In Retrospect,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Infiniti,
The Count Five,
Lindisfarne,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Model 500,
X-101,
Icehouse,
Mars,
Basic Channel,
The Names,
The Smiths,
Theoretical Girls,
Carl Craig,
KRS-One,
Bizarre Inc.,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
kango's stein massive,
Alice Coltrane,
Arthur Verocai,
Camouflage,
Kerri Chandler,
Animal Collective,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Mark Hollis,
Thee Headcoats, Thee Headcoats, Thee Headcoats, Thee Headcoats.
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.