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 Singapore and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Throbbing Gristle 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 1962 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 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 Wings to the funk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Cluster. All the underground hits.
All Agent Orange tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Busters record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a La Düsseldorf record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Boz Scaggs,
Eric Copeland,
The Searchers,
Sällskapet,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Don Cherry,
Letta Mbulu,
The Smoke,
Q65,
Eve St. Jones,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Robert Hood,
Television Personalities,
The Durutti Column,
Michelle Simonal,
Angry Samoans,
T.S.O.L.,
Graham Central Station,
Rites of Spring,
Shoche,
Todd Rundgren,
Faraquet,
Stereo Dub,
Niagra,
The Barracudas,
Fluxion,
Yellowson,
Qualms,
Flipper,
Lebanon Hanover,
Soul Sonic Force,
Surgeon,
Reuben Wilson,
Sam Rivers,
Soft Machine,
Yusef Lateef,
Quantec,
Toni Rubio,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Malaria!,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Davy DMX,
Yaz,
Gastr Del Sol,
Urselle,
Wolf Eyes,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Bobby Hutcherson,
the Bar-Kays,
Stetsasonic,
Peter & Gordon,
the Swans,
Japan,
Glenn Branca,
Tropical Tobacco,
Hashim,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Amazonics,
Jesper Dahlback,
Loose Ends,
Radiopuhelimet, Radiopuhelimet, Radiopuhelimet, Radiopuhelimet.
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.