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 Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage 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 1960 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 oboe 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 Suicide to the techno kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Depeche Mode. All the underground hits.
All Sonic Youth tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ultramagnetic MC's 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Donny Hathaway record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Aural Exciters,
Loose Ends,
The Toasters,
The Golliwogs,
Young Marble Giants,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Warren Ellis,
Panda Bear,
Shuggie Otis,
New York Dolls,
Chris Corsano,
The Gladiators,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Byron Stingily,
The Mojo Men,
Echospace,
Bush Tetras,
Lebanon Hanover,
Cal Tjader,
Franke,
Joyce Sims,
Gil Scott Heron,
Sixth Finger,
Eden Ahbez,
JFA,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Joy Division,
Eric Copeland,
Godley & Creme,
Eddi Front,
Rosa Yemen,
Avey Tare,
Derrick Morgan,
These Immortal Souls,
Average White Band,
Skriet,
Yellowson,
Spoonie Gee,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Morten Harket,
The Happenings,
The Fire Engines,
Lou Reed,
Black Bananas,
The Grass Roots,
The Kinks,
Bronski Beat,
Dennis Brown,
A Certain Ratio,
Scrapy,
Public Image Ltd.,
In Retrospect,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Con Funk Shun,
Blossom Toes,
Jeff Mills,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Bob Dylan,
Rakim,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Max Romeo,
Ralphi Rosario, Ralphi Rosario, Ralphi Rosario, Ralphi Rosario.
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.