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 Croatia and from Houston.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Newcleus to the rock 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 cv313. All the underground hits.
All The American Breed tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visage 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Outsiders record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Frankie Knuckles,
Soul II Soul,
B.T. Express,
Pagans,
Infiniti,
Fat Boys,
EPMD,
Marine Girls,
Scott Walker,
The Alarm Clocks,
Sugar Minott,
KRS-One,
Flash Fearless,
Erykah Badu,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The American Breed,
Lyres,
Rod Modell,
cv313,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Basic Channel,
The Kinks,
Todd Terry,
Guru Guru,
Cybotron,
Section 25,
The Detroit Cobras,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Crime,
James White and The Blacks,
Agent Orange,
Minor Threat,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Minutemen,
The Buckinghams,
The Fuzztones,
Sonic Youth,
Flipper,
LL Cool J,
Television,
Lucky Dragons,
PIL,
Nico,
Slick Rick,
Gil Scott Heron,
Jeff Mills,
The Music Machine,
Make Up,
The Neon Judgement,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Popol Vuh,
The Raincoats,
the Fania All-Stars,
Rotary Connection,
Gang Starr,
R.M.O.,
Harry Pussy,
Soul Sonic Force,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Kayak,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud, Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud, Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud, Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud.
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.