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 Hungary and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise 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 1969 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 Robert Palmer 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 Schoolly D to the disco kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Joensuu 1685. All the underground hits.
All Country Joe & The Fish tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Animal Collective record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sly & The Family Stone record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Mojo Men,
The Offenders,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Leonard Cohen,
Cecil Taylor,
Das Ding,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Gories,
David Axelrod,
Skriet,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Cal Tjader,
Ituana,
Lee Hazlewood,
Talk Talk,
Sun City Girls,
Schoolly D,
Blancmange,
Traffic Nightmare,
Rotary Connection,
K-Klass,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Mummies,
Tom Boy,
Bad Manners,
Avey Tare,
The Victims,
Audionom,
A Certain Ratio,
Desert Stars,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Khruangbin,
Idris Muhammad,
Colin Newman,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Flash Fearless,
Massinfluence,
Sight & Sound,
Visage,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Frankie Knuckles,
Cymande,
The New Christs,
Nirvana,
DNA,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Animal Collective,
Chrome,
Aural Exciters,
Ossler,
Fluxion,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
LL Cool J,
Juan Atkins,
Rites of Spring,
Bizarre Inc.,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Litter,
Deakin,
The Zeros,
the Bar-Kays,
Model 500, Model 500, Model 500, Model 500.
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.