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 Afghanistan 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 1965 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Siglo XX to the grime kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Mary Jane Girls. All the underground hits.
All Crime tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Dave Clark Five record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Q65 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Donald Byrd,
Sun City Girls,
Johnny Clarke,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Monks,
Jerry's Kids,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Reagan Youth,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Freddie Wadling,
Kenny Larkin,
Ponytail,
Babytalk,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Thee Headcoats,
Sugar Minott,
Ten City,
Laurel Aitken,
Black Moon,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Henry Cow,
Mo-Dettes,
Quadrant,
Clear Light,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Ossler,
Ituana,
the Slits,
Jeff Mills,
Warren Ellis,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Altered Images,
This Heat,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Peter and Kerry,
Basic Channel,
The Moleskins,
Parry Music,
Big Daddy Kane,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Banda Bassotti,
Howard Jones,
Severed Heads,
Joy Division,
Ultra Naté,
Angry Samoans,
Jacques Brel,
Infiniti,
Joyce Sims,
The Pretty Things,
48th St. Collective,
DNA,
Black Bananas,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Groovy Waters,
Los Fastidios,
Livin' Joy,
The Fugs,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell.
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.