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 Fiji and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 Madrid and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the sitar 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 Tommy Roe to the grime kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Suburban Knight. All the underground hits.
All Chrome tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every De La Soul & Jungle Brothers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gang of Four record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Echospace,
Amon Düül II,
Pole,
Aloha Tigers,
Shoche,
Barbara Tucker,
Magazine,
Dennis Brown,
Circle Jerks,
Derrick Morgan,
Neil Young,
Half Japanese,
Dark Day,
Rod Modell,
Big Daddy Kane,
Blake Baxter,
Hashim,
Intrusion,
One Last Wish,
Ohio Players,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Wake,
Thompson Twins,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Minny Pops,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Joe Smooth,
The Angels of Light,
Lucky Dragons,
Lou Christie,
Ludus,
Liliput,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
R.M.O.,
Funkadelic,
The Residents,
Con Funk Shun,
Scion,
OOIOO,
the Soft Cell,
Ronan,
Agent Orange,
Procol Harum,
The Blackbyrds,
The Mojo Men,
The Blues Magoos,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Mummies,
The Zeros,
Jeff Mills,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Sonic Youth,
ABC,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Anthony Braxton,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
ABBA,
Faraquet, Faraquet, Faraquet, Faraquet.
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.