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 Ghana and from Shanghai.
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 1964 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Sao Paulo.
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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Ponytail to the electroclash kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Mark Hollis. All the underground hits.
All David Axelrod tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Wally Richardson record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Funky Four + One record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Modern Lovers,
Brick,
One Last Wish,
Maurizio,
Ponytail,
Adolescents,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Marmalade,
Joensuu 1685,
Circle Jerks,
Alice Coltrane,
Model 500,
Infiniti,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Crooked Eye,
Ralphi Rosario,
Tropical Tobacco,
Marshall Jefferson,
Chrome,
LL Cool J,
X-Ray Spex,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Barbara Tucker,
Danielle Patucci,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Television Personalities,
Eli Mardock,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Minny Pops,
Toni Rubio,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Ohio Players,
Pagans,
David Bowie,
Carl Craig,
Inner City,
Cheater Slicks,
KRS-One,
The Raincoats,
The Angels of Light,
Max Romeo,
Icehouse,
The Velvet Underground,
Joyce Sims,
Animal Collective,
The Sisters of Mercy,
The Leaves,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Gories,
Country Teasers,
Joy Division,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Tremeloes,
Pussy Galore,
Faraquet,
Scott Walker, Scott Walker, Scott Walker, Scott Walker.
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.