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 Bahrain and from London.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Mantronix to the electroclash kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 X-Ray Spex. All the underground hits.
All Alton Ellis tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Anakelly 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Isaac Hayes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gastr Del Sol,
E-Dancer,
Joy Division,
Erasure,
Eve St. Jones,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Piero Umiliani,
the Soft Cell,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Leonard Cohen,
ABC,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
A Certain Ratio,
Second Layer,
Sugar Minott,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Invisible,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Whodini,
Barrington Levy,
kango's stein massive,
Bobby Sherman,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Brand Nubian,
Lou Christie,
Brothers Johnson,
CMW,
Kevin Saunderson,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
the Normal,
Delon & Dalcan,
Joe Finger,
Pharoah Sanders,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Von Mondo,
Porter Ricks,
Model 500,
Brick,
The Zeros,
The Mojo Men,
Rotary Connection,
Gichy Dan,
Hasil Adkins,
Carl Craig,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Quadrant,
K-Klass,
Man Parrish,
Boz Scaggs,
Harpers Bizarre,
Wolf Eyes,
Sight & Sound,
Underground Resistance,
The Beau Brummels,
Prince Buster,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Tubeway Army,
Ten City,
Bobby Womack,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Lakeside, Lakeside, Lakeside, Lakeside.
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.