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 Peru and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1966 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 chamberlin 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 Pussy Galore to the grime kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Tom Boy. All the underground hits.
All the Swans tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Move 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Davy DMX record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Qualms,
Cheater Slicks,
Sun City Girls,
The Mojo Men,
The Sonics,
Skarface,
Joe Finger,
Jawbox,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Trojans,
Con Funk Shun,
Shuggie Otis,
Chris Corsano,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Heaven 17,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Suburban Knight,
Monks,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Kerrie Biddell,
the Swans,
Reuben Wilson,
Television Personalities,
Ohio Players,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Joey Negro,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Beau Brummels,
Soft Cell,
Jacob Miller,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Jerry's Kids,
Black Sheep,
The Fortunes,
The Litter,
Letta Mbulu,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Gun Club,
Pharoah Sanders,
Mary Jane Girls,
Gastr Del Sol,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Swans,
La Düsseldorf,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
the Slits,
Absolute Body Control,
Depeche Mode,
The Raincoats,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Easy Going,
Bauhaus,
Arab on Radar,
Gang Starr,
The Seeds,
Barrington Levy,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Television,
Trumans Water,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Godley & Creme,
Derrick Morgan, Derrick Morgan, Derrick Morgan, Derrick Morgan.
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.