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 Montenegro and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1963 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Magazine to the punk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 The Durutti Column. All the underground hits.
All Erykah Badu tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scott Walker + Sunn O))) record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Absolute Body Control record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Happenings,
The Walker Brothers,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Black Sheep,
Zapp,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Chrome,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Techniques,
Joey Negro,
Khruangbin,
JFA,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Eden Ahbez,
Soul Sonic Force,
Boogie Down Productions,
Silicon Teens,
The Cramps,
Glambeats Corp.,
Theoretical Girls,
X-Ray Spex,
Aloha Tigers,
Henry Cow,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Warsaw,
Nils Olav,
Deakin,
The United States of America,
Pylon,
Gastr Del Sol,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Heaven 17,
X-102,
The Barracudas,
Albert Ayler,
Jeff Mills,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Saccharine Trust,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Ultra Naté,
Easy Going,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Bobby Womack,
Television,
Camberwell Now,
Chris & Cosey,
Marine Girls,
The Evens,
Swans,
Davy DMX,
E-Dancer,
Man Parrish,
Robert Wyatt,
Radiohead,
The Modern Lovers,
Young Marble Giants,
ABC,
Masters at Work,
Juan Atkins,
Maleditus Sound,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam.
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.