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 Colombia and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise 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 1968 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Joey Negro to the electroclash 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 Fluxion. All the underground hits.
All Siouxsie and the Banshees tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sly & The Family Stone record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Todd Terry record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Basic Channel,
Toni Rubio,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Accadde A,
Clear Light,
Aswad,
Public Image Ltd.,
Yaz,
Idris Muhammad,
James White and The Blacks,
Sparks,
Procol Harum,
Buzzcocks,
Eli Mardock,
Black Moon,
Chris Corsano,
UT,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The Monochrome Set,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Rhythm & Sound,
Grey Daturas,
Eden Ahbez,
The Gun Club,
Harpers Bizarre,
Davy DMX,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Y Pants,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
MC5,
X-Ray Spex,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Music Machine,
Soul Sonic Force,
Sixth Finger,
Kurtis Blow,
Throbbing Gristle,
Ultra Naté,
Lindisfarne,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Minnie Riperton,
Agitation Free,
Wally Richardson,
The Selecter,
Delta 5,
One Last Wish,
Cheater Slicks,
New Age Steppers,
Das Ding,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Arthur Verocai,
Moss Icon,
The Shadows of Knight,
Nas,
The Sound,
Vainqueur,
Nirvana,
Ralphi Rosario,
Porter Ricks,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud, Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud, Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud, Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud.
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.