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 St Kitts & Nevis and from Taipei.
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 1968 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Eric Dolphy to the dance 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 Hashim. All the underground hits.
All Con Funk Shun tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Anakelly 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 '80s.
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 Franke record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joey Negro,
Vladislav Delay,
Arab on Radar,
Essential Logic,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Silicon Teens,
Sexual Harrassment,
Model 500,
Eddi Front,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Ronnie Foster,
Chrome,
Albert Ayler,
Rakim,
Tim Buckley,
Talk Talk,
The Gun Club,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Buckinghams,
Kayak,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Camberwell Now,
The Smoke,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Jawbox,
Sun City Girls,
Fela Kuti,
CMW,
The Gories,
Gang Starr,
Fluxion,
Public Enemy,
Lou Christie,
Eric Dolphy,
Funky Four + One,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Al Stewart,
Sam Rivers,
The Blackbyrds,
Kas Product,
Harmonia,
The Invisible,
Deadbeat,
Zero Boys,
The Gap Band,
Fear,
Warsaw,
Junior Murvin,
U.S. Maple,
John Cale,
Adolescents,
Amazonics,
Alton Ellis,
X-102,
Absolute Body Control,
Todd Rundgren,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Human League,
Erasure,
Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci.
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.