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 Liberia and from Glasgow.
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 1964 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 Tom Verlaine 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 Teenage Jesus and the Jerks to the disco kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Boz Scaggs. All the underground hits.
All Dorothy Ashby tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Strawberry Alarm Clock record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bobby Womack record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Warren Ellis,
Kerrie Biddell,
Sandy B,
Sun Ra,
Marine Girls,
Godley & Creme,
Nas,
Franke,
Prince Buster,
Josef K,
Darondo,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Toni Rubio,
Nik Kershaw,
Scott Walker,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Tim Buckley,
Kurtis Blow,
Big Daddy Kane,
Soul II Soul,
Warsaw,
Kenny Larkin,
Ossler,
Supertramp,
Wally Richardson,
Matthew Bourne,
Harry Pussy,
Massinfluence,
Man Eating Sloth,
Unrelated Segments,
Blossom Toes,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Blancmange,
Liliput,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Camberwell Now,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Popol Vuh,
The Human League,
Flipper,
Drexciya,
Barrington Levy,
The Remains,
Alison Limerick,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Pop Group,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Country Teasers,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Associates,
Scion,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Fad Gadget,
Todd Rundgren,
The United States of America,
Whodini,
Bill Wells,
Dead Boys,
The Gap Band,
The Fuzztones,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam.
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.