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 Malta and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 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 Spoonie Gee to the funk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Livin' Joy. All the underground hits.
All Gastr Del Sol tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Davy DMX 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Technova record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Con Funk Shun,
Yusef Lateef,
The Sonics,
Tres Demented,
Man Eating Sloth,
Masters at Work,
Susan Cadogan,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Donald Byrd,
Alphaville,
Kerri Chandler,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
D'Angelo,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Mark Hollis,
Lyres,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Marmalade,
Half Japanese,
Steve Hackett,
Janne Schatter,
World's Most,
Ralphi Rosario,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
ABBA,
Judy Mowatt,
Ice-T,
Tropical Tobacco,
Wasted Youth,
The Monks,
Dead Boys,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Tim Buckley,
Radio Birdman,
Ronnie Foster,
Clear Light,
Mo-Dettes,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Soft Machine,
Pantaleimon,
Sandy B,
Audionom,
The Sisters of Mercy,
London Community Gospel Choir,
New Age Steppers,
The Birthday Party,
Minnie Riperton,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Depeche Mode,
Arab on Radar,
H. Thieme,
Lower 48,
Sight & Sound,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Techniques,
Au Pairs,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog, Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog, Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog, Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog.
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.