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 Sri Lanka and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia 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 1966 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 808 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 DNA to the grime 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 Black Sheep. All the underground hits.
All Kurtis Blow tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Excepter record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 an arpeggiator and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Grauzone record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Can,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Godley & Creme,
Maleditus Sound,
Japan,
Lyres,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Agent Orange,
the Normal,
Reuben Wilson,
Prince Buster,
Simply Red,
Brick,
The Monks,
Colin Newman,
The Litter,
The Zeros,
Janne Schatter,
Crooked Eye,
The Standells,
Zero Boys,
Barry Ungar,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Pantaleimon,
Subhumans,
Lou Reed,
The Move,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Aaron Thompson,
Leonard Cohen,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Kas Product,
Second Layer,
Moss Icon,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Soul Sonic Force,
kango's stein massive,
Guru Guru,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Albert Ayler,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The New Christs,
Groovy Waters,
The Fire Engines,
Ultimate Spinach,
Ornette Coleman,
Fluxion,
David Bowie,
Von Mondo,
Nas,
Fela Kuti,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Average White Band,
Bronski Beat,
Sun Ra,
Drexciya,
Eric Dolphy,
Brass Construction,
Rotary Connection,
Lou Christie,
Steve Hackett,
Susan Cadogan, Susan Cadogan, Susan Cadogan, Susan Cadogan.
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.