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 Latvia and from Bologna.
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 1967 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Absolute Body Control to the disco kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Adolescents. All the underground hits.
All Joe Smooth tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every MDC 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a UT record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rapeman,
Grandmaster Flash,
Agitation Free,
Sarah Menescal,
Roger Hodgson,
Toni Rubio,
Charles Mingus,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Boredoms,
Whodini,
Eddi Front,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Duran Duran,
Liliput,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Eurythmics,
Ice-T,
Jimmy McGriff,
Barrington Levy,
Lindisfarne,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Babytalk,
Cluster,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Real Kids,
The Associates,
The American Breed,
Bronski Beat,
Cameo,
Rosa Yemen,
The Skatalites,
Icehouse,
The Sonics,
Throbbing Gristle,
Todd Rundgren,
Half Japanese,
the Normal,
John Lydon,
Metal Thangz,
Drive Like Jehu,
New Order,
The United States of America,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Gil Scott Heron,
Iggy Pop,
Neu!,
The Walker Brothers,
The Standells,
The Vogues,
Yaz,
Japan,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Idris Muhammad,
Jandek,
Sugar Minott,
Curtis Mayfield,
Silicon Teens,
John Coltrane,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Blossom Toes,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Hardrive, Hardrive, Hardrive, Hardrive.
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.