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 Mozambique and from Halifax.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise show in London.
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 Edmonton and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Major Organ And The Adding Machine to the crunk 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 LL Cool J. All the underground hits.
All Soft Machine tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every 8 Eyed Spy record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Harmonia record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Faust,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Drexciya,
Half Japanese,
The Gap Band,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
La Düsseldorf,
Lower 48,
Deadbeat,
Matthew Bourne,
Section 25,
Gil Scott Heron,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Schoolly D,
Derrick Morgan,
Byron Stingily,
Shoche,
T. Rex,
Moss Icon,
Joyce Sims,
Althea and Donna,
Donny Hathaway,
Ice-T,
Stiv Bators,
Amon Düül,
Siglo XX,
Electric Light Orchestra,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Q65,
Lindisfarne,
Bobby Byrd,
Bronski Beat,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Big Daddy Kane,
Brothers Johnson,
Eddi Front,
Ronnie Foster,
Gang Starr,
Moby Grape,
Trumans Water,
Mad Mike,
Barrington Levy,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Dorothy Ashby,
Kerri Chandler,
Robert Görl,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Stereo Dub,
Brass Construction,
K-Klass,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
The American Breed,
Ituana,
JFA,
Fatback Band,
Arcadia,
Mr. Review,
The Five Americans,
The Black Dice,
EPMD,
Joe Finger,
Minor Threat,
John Lydon, John Lydon, John Lydon, John Lydon.
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.