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 Korea South and from Paris.
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 1968 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Thee Headcoats to the electroclash kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Mojo Men. All the underground hits.
All Swell Maps tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lower 48 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 an oboe and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rekid record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
It's A Beautiful Day,
Yusef Lateef,
The Residents,
Ice-T,
Ludus,
Godley & Creme,
Bobby Byrd,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Hasil Adkins,
Soft Machine,
Quadrant,
Wally Richardson,
The Walker Brothers,
Von Mondo,
Bad Manners,
Michelle Simonal,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Black Bananas,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Anthony Braxton,
Grey Daturas,
Johnny Osbourne,
Nik Kershaw,
Ponytail,
Gabor Szabo,
Minor Threat,
The Modern Lovers,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Pretty Things,
Gang Green,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The Velvet Underground,
Erykah Badu,
Chris & Cosey,
Los Fastidios,
Con Funk Shun,
John Lydon,
John Cale,
Radiopuhelimet,
Ronan,
Todd Terry,
The Smoke,
The Birthday Party,
Das Ding,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Roxette,
Dennis Brown,
Ossler,
Lower 48,
Erasure,
Drexciya,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Lindisfarne,
China Crisis,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Kurtis Blow,
Brothers Johnson,
The J.B.'s,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Slackers,
Rhythm & Sound, Rhythm & Sound, Rhythm & Sound, Rhythm & Sound.
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.