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 Somalia and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Fall 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 Pet Shop Boys. All the underground hits.
All Henry Cow tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Alton Ellis record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Curtis Mayfield record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rotary Connection,
The Residents,
Joey Negro,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
June of 44,
Surgeon,
Terrestrial Tones,
Drive Like Jehu,
Skarface,
Gabor Szabo,
Bobby Womack,
Eli Mardock,
Young Marble Giants,
Saccharine Trust,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Lou Christie,
T.S.O.L.,
ABC,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
kango's stein massive,
Intrusion,
Gang Gang Dance,
Wire,
The Young Rascals,
Rekid,
The Velvet Underground,
Black Sheep,
Zero Boys,
the Germs,
The Smoke,
the Slits,
Niagra,
Malaria!,
Hashim,
Oneida,
Delta 5,
X-101,
Public Enemy,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Bauhaus,
The American Breed,
Stereo Dub,
E-Dancer,
Section 25,
Khruangbin,
Alice Coltrane,
Kurtis Blow,
Ten City,
Byron Stingily,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
PIL,
The Dave Clark Five,
Sight & Sound,
Chris & Cosey,
Essential Logic,
Buzzcocks,
Crooked Eye,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Carl Craig,
Derrick May,
The Leaves,
Steve Hackett,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog, Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog, Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog, Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog.
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.