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 St Lucia and from Lille.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 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 Das Ding to the funk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Fugazi. All the underground hits.
All The United States of America tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pantaleimon record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rosa Yemen record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Chris & Cosey,
Hot Snakes,
Nas,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
CMW,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Saints,
The Wake,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Dave Gahan,
Wally Richardson,
Todd Terry,
Wolf Eyes,
Amon Düül,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Black Moon,
The Gap Band,
Dorothy Ashby,
Arab on Radar,
Anthony Braxton,
Chrome,
Wings,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Agent Orange,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
the Fania All-Stars,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Joyce Sims,
B.T. Express,
Erykah Badu,
Bobby Byrd,
Aaron Thompson,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Bobby Womack,
Rhythm & Sound,
Boogie Down Productions,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Bush Tetras,
Clear Light,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Moleskins,
Tom Boy,
Audionom,
Leonard Cohen,
New Age Steppers,
The Motions,
Absolute Body Control,
Lalo Schifrin,
Spandau Ballet,
Nick Fraelich,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
the Normal,
Arthur Verocai,
Guru Guru,
Eden Ahbez,
Dead Boys,
Roxy Music,
Rakim,
F. McDonald,
Metal Thangz,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Gabor Szabo, Gabor Szabo, Gabor Szabo, Gabor Szabo.
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.