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 Dominica and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1969 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 organ 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 Marc Almond to the funk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 The Neon Judgement. All the underground hits.
All Joe Smooth tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Echospace record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bad Manners record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pharoah Sanders,
The Martian,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Pretty Things,
The Gories,
The Barracudas,
the Bar-Kays,
Masters at Work,
Barry Ungar,
John Coltrane,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Joey Negro,
Qualms,
Joyce Sims,
Rhythm & Sound,
Faraquet,
John Foxx,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Trumans Water,
Kurtis Blow,
Ludus,
Crispian St. Peters,
Scott Walker,
Model 500,
Jeru the Damaja,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Smoke,
the Slits,
Moebius,
Chrome,
Malaria!,
Brand Nubian,
Sonic Youth,
Byron Stingily,
Funkadelic,
Peter & Gordon,
Terrestrial Tones,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Sarah Menescal,
Graham Central Station,
Mary Jane Girls,
Monks,
Icehouse,
The Names,
Bobby Sherman,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Dawn Penn,
The Gladiators,
The Index,
Funky Four + One,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
8 Eyed Spy,
R.M.O.,
Deadbeat,
Radio Birdman,
Lou Christie,
Stiv Bators,
Alton Ellis,
Danielle Patucci,
Motorama,
Arab on Radar,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron.
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.