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 Portugal and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South 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 1963 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 oboe 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 Lucky Dragons to the funk 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 Lakeside. All the underground hits.
All Aloha Tigers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pylon record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a K-Klass record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eden Ahbez,
Black Pus,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Bad Manners,
Au Pairs,
Leonard Cohen,
Kool Moe Dee,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Juan Atkins,
Kayak,
The Blackbyrds,
Erykah Badu,
Depeche Mode,
Bob Dylan,
Tears for Fears,
Mark Hollis,
Soul Sonic Force,
Boz Scaggs,
Pole,
The Music Machine,
Arab on Radar,
PIL,
Fluxion,
Pantaleimon,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Girls At Our Best!,
Altered Images,
Shuggie Otis,
The Seeds,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Wire,
The Birthday Party,
John Lydon,
The Shadows of Knight,
Outsiders,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Aaron Thompson,
The Sisters of Mercy,
The Kinks,
Public Image Ltd.,
Godley & Creme,
Minutemen,
Pulsallama,
Darondo,
Gabor Szabo,
John Foxx,
Siglo XX,
Popol Vuh,
Circle Jerks,
Erasure,
Moss Icon,
Interpol,
Television Personalities,
Wally Richardson,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Josef K,
Lungfish,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Slackers,
Bluetip,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Charles Mingus,
David Bowie,
The New Christs, The New Christs, The New Christs, The New Christs.
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.