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 Madrid.
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 1961 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Edmonton.
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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 La Düsseldorf to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Moebius. All the underground hits.
All The Moody Blues tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Alice Coltrane 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Chocolate Watch Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scion,
Maleditus Sound,
Altered Images,
Wire,
Janne Schatter,
Jimmy McGriff,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Agitation Free,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Rapeman,
Warren Ellis,
The Alarm Clocks,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Grass Roots,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
48th St. Collective,
Marine Girls,
Crime,
Tommy Roe,
X-102,
Popol Vuh,
World's Most,
The Doors,
Scan 7,
Radiohead,
Peter & Gordon,
Eurythmics,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Monks,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Marmalade,
Silicon Teens,
Urselle,
DJ Style,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
The Beau Brummels,
Drive Like Jehu,
Eli Mardock,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Newcleus,
Y Pants,
Ituana,
Rites of Spring,
Neu!,
Reagan Youth,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
KRS-One,
The Fugs,
Supertramp,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Gories,
Boredoms,
Slave,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Crash Course in Science,
H. Thieme,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Thee Headcoats,
Eve St. Jones,
Mantronix,
Patti Smith,
Khruangbin,
Adolescents, Adolescents, Adolescents, Adolescents.
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.