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 Bulgaria and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1962 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 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 E-Dancer to the funk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Bananas. All the underground hits.
All Johnny Osbourne tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Blake Baxter record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Happenings record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Massinfluence,
Alphaville,
The Leaves,
Babytalk,
Crash Course in Science,
Clear Light,
The American Breed,
Aloha Tigers,
Half Japanese,
The Slits,
Lyres,
PIL,
UT,
Niagra,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Star Department,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Stooges,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Brass Construction,
Maleditus Sound,
Hasil Adkins,
The Walker Brothers,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Maurizio,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Jerry's Kids,
The Offenders,
Make Up,
Ornette Coleman,
Lebanon Hanover,
Slick Rick,
Pole,
Au Pairs,
The Mummies,
Cameo,
The Zeros,
Jacob Miller,
Quando Quango,
Zero Boys,
Altered Images,
ABBA,
Skriet,
Peter & Gordon,
Rhythm & Sound,
Michelle Simonal,
Funkadelic,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Albert Ayler,
Anthony Braxton,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Yusef Lateef,
Sun Ra,
Lou Reed,
The Skatalites,
The Divine Comedy,
Leonard Cohen,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Oneida, Oneida, Oneida, Oneida.
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.