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 Togo and from Bologna.
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 1966 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
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 The Moleskins to the techno 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 Marshall Jefferson. All the underground hits.
All Roxette tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Litter 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dark Day record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bronski Beat,
T. Rex,
Faraquet,
DJ Style,
The Buckinghams,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Average White Band,
Derrick Morgan,
Dual Sessions,
Monolake,
10cc,
Buzzcocks,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Ituana,
Drive Like Jehu,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Juan Atkins,
Danielle Patucci,
Anakelly,
Ronnie Foster,
In Retrospect,
Shoche,
Throbbing Gristle,
The Raincoats,
Warren Ellis,
Crooked Eye,
Peter and Kerry,
Black Moon,
Radio Birdman,
D'Angelo,
Sällskapet,
Nick Fraelich,
Youth Brigade,
B.T. Express,
Khruangbin,
Banda Bassotti,
Unwound,
Delta 5,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Underground Resistance,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Can,
Minor Threat,
Dave Gahan,
Minnie Riperton,
Black Bananas,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Gabor Szabo,
Cal Tjader,
Alton Ellis,
Darondo,
The Modern Lovers,
The Moody Blues,
The Remains,
Joyce Sims,
Jerry's Kids,
Main Source,
kango's stein massive,
Howard Jones,
Marshall Jefferson,
Black Sheep,
Rufus Thomas,
Fat Boys,
The Stooges, The Stooges, The Stooges, The Stooges.
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.