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 Azerbaijan and from Bremen.
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 1964 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 marimba 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 DJ Style to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 The Shadows of Knight. All the underground hits.
All Jawbox tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Wire 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bush Tetras record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Khruangbin,
Swell Maps,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Moss Icon,
Cybotron,
Infiniti,
Eric Dolphy,
Ituana,
Los Fastidios,
Drexciya,
The Zeros,
The Knickerbockers,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Spandau Ballet,
Gang Gang Dance,
Wire,
Porter Ricks,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Bluetip,
The Music Machine,
Liliput,
Mark Hollis,
Half Japanese,
The Fugs,
Trumans Water,
ABBA,
Yazoo,
Freddie Wadling,
Erasure,
Al Stewart,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Nick Fraelich,
Maleditus Sound,
The Birthday Party,
Flash Fearless,
Unwound,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Sun Ra,
The Fall,
Youth Brigade,
New Order,
Stiv Bators,
Mad Mike,
Buzzcocks,
DNA,
Public Image Ltd.,
Pulsallama,
Pantaleimon,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Babytalk,
a-ha,
The Modern Lovers,
Oneida,
The Real Kids,
The Gladiators,
Agitation Free,
Laurel Aitken,
Lindisfarne,
Basic Channel,
AZ, AZ, AZ, AZ.
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.