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 Mali and from Lyon.
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 1969 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the güiro 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 Ossler to the funk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Wake. All the underground hits.
All Terror Squad Feat. Camron tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Main Source record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 chamberlin and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ludus record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lucky Dragons,
The Fall,
DJ Sneak,
The Blues Magoos,
Grandmaster Flash,
Todd Rundgren,
Crime,
Johnny Clarke,
Laurel Aitken,
Mandrill,
X-Ray Spex,
John Cale,
Joy Division,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
New Order,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Pagans,
the Soft Cell,
Grey Daturas,
Scientists,
Peter and Kerry,
Lou Reed,
Popol Vuh,
Ossler,
Negative Approach,
The Leaves,
FM Einheit,
One Last Wish,
Jacob Miller,
Kenny Larkin,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Lower 48,
Suburban Knight,
Suicide,
Joe Finger,
Bill Near,
Mr. Review,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
PIL,
Wings,
Television,
Soulsonic Force,
The Durutti Column,
Tears for Fears,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Music Machine,
Matthew Halsall,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Jesper Dahlback,
Chris Corsano,
Funky Four + One,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Ohio Players,
Siglo XX,
Isaac Hayes,
The Seeds,
The Martian,
Royal Trux,
Rapeman,
Outsiders,
Buzzcocks, Buzzcocks, Buzzcocks, Buzzcocks.
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.