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 Philippines and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 Winnipeg and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 808 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 Ultramagnetic MC's to the dance kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Bizarre Inc.. All the underground hits.
All Barry Ungar tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Motorama 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 marimba and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joe Smooth record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kerri Chandler,
D'Angelo,
Peter and Kerry,
Ornette Coleman,
Little Man,
Von Mondo,
Rhythm & Sound,
T. Rex,
Public Enemy,
The Toasters,
Robert Görl,
Urselle,
The Count Five,
The Neon Judgement,
Judy Mowatt,
Boredoms,
Duran Duran,
New Order,
The J.B.'s,
Fela Kuti,
Mo-Dettes,
Scan 7,
Junior Murvin,
OOIOO,
Nick Fraelich,
The Star Department,
James White and The Blacks,
Newcleus,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Lightning Bolt,
Bill Wells,
Erykah Badu,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Eve St. Jones,
Radio Birdman,
Dennis Brown,
Aural Exciters,
Donald Byrd,
AZ,
Agitation Free,
kango's stein massive,
Sonny Sharrock,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Misunderstood,
Anakelly,
Rotary Connection,
10cc,
Banda Bassotti,
Schoolly D,
Althea and Donna,
Half Japanese,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Steve Hackett,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Symarip,
Niagra,
Minor Threat,
Scratch Acid,
Crispy Ambulance, Crispy Ambulance, Crispy Ambulance, Crispy Ambulance.
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.