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 Bolivia and from Columbus.
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 1961 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Rahsaan Roland Kirk to the electroclash 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 Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel. All the underground hits.
All Unwound tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kaleidoscope 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Chris & Cosey record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Curtis Mayfield,
Kerri Chandler,
Matthew Bourne,
Moebius,
Donald Byrd,
Simply Red,
Bush Tetras,
Grey Daturas,
Kool Moe Dee,
Banda Bassotti,
Ultravox,
The Residents,
Joensuu 1685,
Isaac Hayes,
Henry Cow,
DNA,
Yazoo,
Oneida,
Jimmy McGriff,
Nation of Ulysses,
Alphaville,
Surgeon,
The Wake,
Pagans,
Fluxion,
Sparks,
The Searchers,
Gabor Szabo,
Bizarre Inc.,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Flamin' Groovies,
Jeff Mills,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Gap Band,
Gang Gang Dance,
Minor Threat,
Lee Hazlewood,
Fatback Band,
The Sound,
Joe Smooth,
Easy Going,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
June of 44,
John Coltrane,
The Smoke,
The Gladiators,
Bobby Byrd,
The Beau Brummels,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Roger Hodgson,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Stereo Dub,
Funky Four + One,
The Durutti Column,
Outsiders,
Minny Pops,
Maleditus Sound,
Can,
The Doobie Brothers,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Bootsy Collins, Bootsy Collins, Bootsy Collins, Bootsy Collins.
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.