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 Mauritius and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1962 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 The Slits to the jazz kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Negative Approach. All the underground hits.
All X-Ray Spex tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Robert Görl 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kenny Larkin record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Shuggie Otis,
X-102,
Surgeon,
Ice-T,
Fela Kuti,
The Real Kids,
Alton Ellis,
The Moody Blues,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Schoolly D,
A Certain Ratio,
Josef K,
The Dave Clark Five,
Animal Collective,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Harpers Bizarre,
Sparks,
The Slackers,
Sister Nancy,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Duran Duran,
Electric Prunes,
The Misunderstood,
Eurythmics,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Derrick May,
Soulsonic Force,
Alison Limerick,
Fatback Band,
DJ Sneak,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Half Japanese,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Pagans,
Roger Hodgson,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Trumans Water,
Scratch Acid,
Groovy Waters,
Dark Day,
Bizarre Inc.,
Funky Four + One,
Harry Pussy,
the Germs,
Con Funk Shun,
Susan Cadogan,
Drive Like Jehu,
Mr. Review,
Peter & Gordon,
Lakeside,
The Fuzztones,
The Gories,
Marmalade,
Lower 48,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Franke,
Avey Tare,
Pulsallama,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Suburban Knight,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Bronski Beat,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine, Major Organ And The Adding Machine, Major Organ And The Adding Machine, Major Organ And The Adding Machine.
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.