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 Libya and from Edmonton.
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 1966 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Rahsaan Roland Kirk to the grime kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Stetsasonic. All the underground hits.
All Alton Ellis tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Aaron Thompson 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Drive Like Jehu record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Morten Harket,
Rotary Connection,
June Days,
Barry Ungar,
Ronnie Foster,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
KRS-One,
The Real Kids,
Sandy B,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Underground Resistance,
Arthur Verocai,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Lou Reed,
Kayak,
cv313,
The Tremeloes,
Sixth Finger,
Robert Hood,
The Sonics,
Ultra Naté,
Maurizio,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Marine Girls,
Aural Exciters,
Wolf Eyes,
Negative Approach,
Animal Collective,
Fluxion,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Maleditus Sound,
Skaos,
Pole,
Grey Daturas,
Lalann,
10cc,
Glambeats Corp.,
Aswad,
Tropical Tobacco,
Piero Umiliani,
The Music Machine,
The Toasters,
Soulsonic Force,
The Human League,
the Soft Cell,
Television Personalities,
Mantronix,
The Gories,
Desert Stars,
Rosa Yemen,
Trumans Water,
Jesper Dahlback,
This Heat,
the Fania All-Stars,
Motorama,
Organ,
New Age Steppers,
The Fortunes,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Supertramp,
The Mighty Diamonds,
T.S.O.L., T.S.O.L., T.S.O.L., T.S.O.L..
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.