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 Bulgaria and from Shanghai.
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 1966 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 clarinet 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 Thompson Twins to the jazz 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 Unwound. All the underground hits.
All Throbbing Gristle tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Zero Boys record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a ABC record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gregory Isaacs,
Tropical Tobacco,
Jesper Dahlback,
Soft Machine,
Gang Gang Dance,
Moss Icon,
ABBA,
Judy Mowatt,
Unwound,
Cecil Taylor,
Magazine,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Spoonie Gee,
Harmonia,
Alton Ellis,
Derrick Morgan,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Japan,
Rosa Yemen,
Barrington Levy,
Harry Pussy,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Public Image Ltd.,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Anakelly,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Supertramp,
The Martian,
X-102,
Zero Boys,
Minnie Riperton,
10cc,
Average White Band,
Kaleidoscope,
PIL,
U.S. Maple,
The Young Rascals,
Nas,
Rotary Connection,
Steve Hackett,
Sarah Menescal,
The Dave Clark Five,
David Axelrod,
The Stooges,
Thee Headcoats,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Fatback Band,
The Slackers,
Jeru the Damaja,
Sällskapet,
Funky Four + One,
The Mummies,
AZ,
Black Sheep,
The Gap Band,
Unrelated Segments,
Goldenarms,
Maleditus Sound,
Minor Threat, Minor Threat, Minor Threat, Minor Threat.
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.