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 Iceland and from Taipei.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Rod Modell to the punk 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 Franke. All the underground hits.
All Minor Threat tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Saints,
Neu!,
Bad Manners,
The Selecter,
CMW,
Fela Kuti,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Charles Mingus,
The Divine Comedy,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Jeff Lynne,
Marvin Gaye,
David Axelrod,
Desert Stars,
Gastr Del Sol,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Radio Birdman,
Kas Product,
Essential Logic,
Severed Heads,
Magma,
OOIOO,
the Association,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Cameo,
The Flesh Eaters,
Hardrive,
Half Japanese,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Sun Ra,
Mission of Burma,
Groovy Waters,
Big Daddy Kane,
Newcleus,
Rites of Spring,
Arab on Radar,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Althea and Donna,
The Angels of Light,
Maleditus Sound,
Davy DMX,
L. Decosne,
John Cale,
Sam Rivers,
Boredoms,
Minny Pops,
Tears for Fears,
Kaleidoscope,
The Sonics,
Dawn Penn,
Outsiders,
Scan 7,
Barry Ungar,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Happenings,
Sunsets and Hearts,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Dead C, The Dead C, The Dead C, The Dead C.
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.