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 Zambia and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Wire show in Watford.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Toronto.
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 1971 at the first Neu! practice in a loft in Düsseldorf.
I was working on the theremin 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 Joensuu 1685 to the dance kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Surgeon. All the underground hits.
All The Fortunes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Organ record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 mellotron and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Art Ensemble Of Chicago record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Stereo Dub,
Pole,
The Modern Lovers,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Angels of Light,
Dorothy Ashby,
Crash Course in Science,
Peter & Gordon,
Yusef Lateef,
The Alarm Clocks,
Radio Birdman,
Sonic Youth,
Gang Starr,
Harpers Bizarre,
Yellowson,
Steve Hackett,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Kinks,
Swans,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Glambeats Corp.,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Doors,
Leonard Cohen,
JFA,
The Monks,
Erasure,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Byron Stingily,
The Gun Club,
Toni Rubio,
Stockholm Monsters,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Public Enemy,
Lou Christie,
the Slits,
The Dead C,
Quadrant,
Rod Modell,
Harmonia,
Jesper Dahlback,
Fela Kuti,
The Stooges,
Trumans Water,
Eric B and Rakim,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Harry Pussy,
Tim Buckley,
Technova,
Slick Rick,
Nirvana,
Nas,
Skarface,
Scientists,
The Five Americans,
Piero Umiliani,
Junior Murvin,
Shuggie Otis,
Royal Trux,
L. Decosne,
Radiopuhelimet, Radiopuhelimet, Radiopuhelimet, Radiopuhelimet.
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.