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 Andorra and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1963 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 güiro 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 Altered Images to the jazz 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 Quando Quango. All the underground hits.
All Kool Moe Dee tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every DeepChord presents Echospace record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rotary Connection record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
New Order,
The Golliwogs,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Q and Not U,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Altered Images,
The Alarm Clocks,
Chris Corsano,
Mo-Dettes,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Flamin' Groovies,
Todd Rundgren,
The Shadows of Knight,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
KRS-One,
Cecil Taylor,
Basic Channel,
The Wake,
The Gap Band,
Blake Baxter,
Scion,
Brothers Johnson,
The Toasters,
Amazonics,
Aloha Tigers,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Vladislav Delay,
Mad Mike,
FM Einheit,
Royal Trux,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Fortunes,
The Remains,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Deakin,
Sonny Sharrock,
Lower 48,
Boogie Down Productions,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Subhumans,
Mr. Review,
Eddi Front,
Gastr Del Sol,
Whodini,
The Neon Judgement,
the Human League,
Junior Murvin,
Public Image Ltd.,
Ludus,
The Residents,
Pulsallama,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Prince Buster,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Technova,
Dennis Brown,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Andrew Hill,
Can,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Gil Scott Heron,
Colin Newman,
Stereo Dub, Stereo Dub, Stereo Dub, Stereo Dub.
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.