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 Angola and from Bremen.
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 1962 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Anthony Braxton to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Robert Wyatt. All the underground hits.
All Eric Dolphy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kerrie Biddell 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 sitar and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cal Tjader record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
the Normal,
Blossom Toes,
Anthony Braxton,
The Leaves,
The Seeds,
Darondo,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Archie Shepp,
Idris Muhammad,
Scion,
DNA,
Byron Stingily,
The Velvet Underground,
Easy Going,
Arab on Radar,
Roxette,
The Monks,
Kayak,
Rufus Thomas,
The Golliwogs,
Barry Ungar,
Von Mondo,
FM Einheit,
Kerrie Biddell,
Prince Buster,
Kenny Larkin,
Ludus,
Rotary Connection,
The Slackers,
The Gap Band,
Black Sheep,
Funky Four + One,
Dave Gahan,
Ossler,
JFA,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Misunderstood,
Lower 48,
Aswad,
ABBA,
Sandy B,
Faraquet,
Ronan,
Mary Jane Girls,
Negative Approach,
Josef K,
Roy Ayers,
Loose Ends,
X-101,
Theoretical Girls,
Quadrant,
Letta Mbulu,
Inner City,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Underground Resistance,
Scott Walker,
Alton Ellis,
Saccharine Trust,
Eddi Front,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Alphaville,
Lou Reed & Metallica, Lou Reed & Metallica, Lou Reed & Metallica, Lou Reed & Metallica.
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.