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 Comoros and from Manchester.
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 1965 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 Rekid to the techno 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 Skriet. All the underground hits.
All Shoche tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Angry Samoans 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Modern Lovers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Red Krayola,
Black Pus,
Bill Wells,
Wally Richardson,
Peter and Kerry,
Jeff Lynne,
Panda Bear,
The Cowsills,
Jeru the Damaja,
The Evens,
Josef K,
Unwound,
New Age Steppers,
Joe Finger,
James White and The Blacks,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Marshall Jefferson,
Gong,
Fluxion,
Al Stewart,
Ultimate Spinach,
K-Klass,
Lalo Schifrin,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Dead Boys,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Anakelly,
Mr. Review,
Half Japanese,
The Velvet Underground,
Ralphi Rosario,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Skarface,
The Index,
Infiniti,
Amazonics,
The Fortunes,
Sixth Finger,
Cheater Slicks,
Black Moon,
Franke,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The J.B.'s,
Bootsy Collins,
Gabor Szabo,
The Fall,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Prince Buster,
The Vogues,
The Kinks,
Ossler,
Matthew Halsall,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
X-102,
Carl Craig,
Khruangbin,
Brothers Johnson,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
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.