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 Barbados and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1967 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 David Bowie 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 Smoke to the crunk 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 Gichy Dan. All the underground hits.
All Scott Walker tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joe Finger 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visage record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Niagra,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Nik Kershaw,
The Star Department,
Parry Music,
Kayak,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Nick Fraelich,
Public Enemy,
Avey Tare,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Urselle,
Lucky Dragons,
Monks,
David Bowie,
Black Sheep,
Jacob Miller,
Steve Hackett,
The Birthday Party,
DJ Sneak,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Groovy Waters,
The Busters,
Interpol,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Gichy Dan,
Gabor Szabo,
The Raincoats,
The Zeros,
The Slits,
Babytalk,
Carl Craig,
Lebanon Hanover,
Lalann,
Black Bananas,
Grey Daturas,
The Barracudas,
Don Cherry,
Adolescents,
Intrusion,
Eden Ahbez,
Mars,
Donald Byrd,
Kevin Saunderson,
Drexciya,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Blossom Toes,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Make Up,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Ken Boothe,
Swell Maps,
Ponytail,
Sun City Girls,
The Evens,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Animal Collective,
Bootsy Collins,
Eyeless In Gaza,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
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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.