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 Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Toronto.
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 organ 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 Mission of Burma to the grime kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Kas Product. All the underground hits.
All Sun Ra Arkestra tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Magma 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cal Tjader record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Section 25,
Rhythm & Sound,
Pantytec,
Boredoms,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Kevin Saunderson,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Marshall Jefferson,
Eden Ahbez,
the Normal,
The Wake,
Drexciya,
The Kinks,
Fear,
Letta Mbulu,
Marc Almond,
Groovy Waters,
Swell Maps,
The Golliwogs,
Gang Green,
Panda Bear,
Smog,
JFA,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Warsaw,
Sixth Finger,
Fugazi,
Crash Course in Science,
Los Fastidios,
Nick Fraelich,
Tommy Roe,
R.M.O.,
Dual Sessions,
Tom Boy,
Nils Olav,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Durutti Column,
Audionom,
Barry Ungar,
Average White Band,
The Misunderstood,
The Index,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The Blackbyrds,
Television Personalities,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Kerri Chandler,
The Barracudas,
Jeru the Damaja,
PIL,
Circle Jerks,
Throbbing Gristle,
EPMD,
ABBA,
Inner City,
The Pretty Things,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Janne Schatter,
Duran Duran,
Electric Light Orchestra, Electric Light Orchestra, Electric Light Orchestra, Electric Light Orchestra.
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.