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 Guyana and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1965 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 güiro 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 CMW to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Ken Boothe. All the underground hits.
All Fugazi tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lou Reed 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Cosmic Jokers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nas,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Henry Cow,
The Golliwogs,
Thee Headcoats,
Roxy Music,
Marvin Gaye,
Jeru the Damaja,
The Last Poets,
Qualms,
Suicide,
Soft Cell,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Schoolly D,
Wolf Eyes,
Oneida,
Cal Tjader,
The Young Rascals,
Buzzcocks,
The Vogues,
Todd Terry,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
David Axelrod,
The Dave Clark Five,
8 Eyed Spy,
Connie Case,
Soul II Soul,
The Trojans,
L. Decosne,
Das Ding,
Tres Demented,
John Lydon,
Parry Music,
AZ,
ABC,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Symarip,
The Divine Comedy,
Kurtis Blow,
Lou Reed,
Visage,
Second Layer,
Fear,
Unrelated Segments,
Derrick Morgan,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Outsiders,
The Techniques,
Duran Duran,
Glambeats Corp.,
Sällskapet,
The United States of America,
Babytalk,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Drexciya,
X-102,
Andrew Hill,
Maleditus Sound,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Remains,
Ajijia Myrayebe, Ajijia Myrayebe, Ajijia Myrayebe, Ajijia Myrayebe.
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.