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 Nicaragua 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 1964 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Young Rascals to the dance 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 Jesper Dahlbäck. All the underground hits.
All Mad Mike tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Slave 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Massinfluence record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Easy Going,
Danielle Patucci,
The Fugs,
the Normal,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Dorothy Ashby,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Technova,
Blossom Toes,
Angry Samoans,
Avey Tare,
Hashim,
The Velvet Underground,
Ornette Coleman,
Bobby Byrd,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Magazine,
EPMD,
Quantec,
New York Dolls,
Andrew Hill,
The Searchers,
Soft Machine,
Lower 48,
The Five Americans,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Patti Smith,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
The Birthday Party,
Iggy Pop,
DJ Sneak,
Josef K,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
June Days,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Sunsets and Hearts,
D'Angelo,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Offenders,
The Kinks,
Moss Icon,
Radiopuhelimet,
Banda Bassotti,
Alphaville,
The Grass Roots,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Loose Ends,
A Certain Ratio,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Real Kids,
Kool Moe Dee,
Lightning Bolt,
The Smiths,
Vainqueur,
Mad Mike,
Symarip,
Neil Young,
David Bowie,
The Dave Clark Five,
Crispy Ambulance,
Chrome,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band, Lafayette Afro Rock Band, Lafayette Afro Rock Band, Lafayette Afro Rock Band.
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.