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 Eritrea and from Manila.
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 1961 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 theremin 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 Basic Channel to the jazz kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Teenage Jesus and the Jerks. All the underground hits.
All Idris Muhammad tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Groovy Waters record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Erasure record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Yusef Lateef,
Faust,
Brand Nubian,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Susan Cadogan,
Negative Approach,
Lalann,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The American Breed,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Golliwogs,
Pantaleimon,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Sun Ra,
The Slackers,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Gang of Four,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Kayak,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
kango's stein massive,
Sugar Minott,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Lindisfarne,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Stockholm Monsters,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Little Man,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Durutti Column,
Bush Tetras,
Fat Boys,
Urselle,
Ornette Coleman,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Skriet,
Marine Girls,
Hoover,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Slick Rick,
Johnny Clarke,
Barrington Levy,
Pere Ubu,
Severed Heads,
Ultra Naté,
Roxette,
Dave Gahan,
Slave,
Glambeats Corp.,
Chrome,
Popol Vuh,
T. Rex,
Make Up,
Brothers Johnson,
a-ha,
Reagan Youth,
Rotary Connection,
Lee Hazlewood,
Dark Day, Dark Day, Dark Day, Dark Day.
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.