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 Liberia and from Winnipeg.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Tehran.
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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Dual Sessions to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Radio Birdman. All the underground hits.
All Section 25 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Royal Trux record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Flash Fearless record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Negative Approach,
Quantec,
Mission of Burma,
H. Thieme,
Sixth Finger,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Procol Harum,
the Slits,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Flamin' Groovies,
Terry Callier,
Zapp,
Siglo XX,
Maleditus Sound,
Ultra Naté,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Marshall Jefferson,
the Germs,
Porter Ricks,
Pharoah Sanders,
Popol Vuh,
Joensuu 1685,
The Grass Roots,
Goldenarms,
Amon Düül,
Bad Manners,
Bronski Beat,
Smog,
FM Einheit,
Susan Cadogan,
Reagan Youth,
The Misunderstood,
E-Dancer,
Half Japanese,
Blake Baxter,
The Moody Blues,
The Monochrome Set,
Barclay James Harvest,
Gang Green,
Jeff Mills,
Faust,
June of 44,
Isaac Hayes,
Cymande,
The Raincoats,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Ronan,
the Sonics,
The Standells,
Animal Collective,
Brothers Johnson,
Lalo Schifrin,
Bang On A Can,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Neil Young,
Donald Byrd,
Reuben Wilson,
Fatback Band,
Josef K,
New Order,
Yusef Lateef,
The Five Americans,
Ronnie Foster, Ronnie Foster, Ronnie Foster, Ronnie Foster.
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.