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 Denmark and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Brass Construction to the grime kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Joensuu 1685. All the underground hits.
All Kerri Chandler tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Heavy D & The Boyz 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a sitar 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 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Star Department,
Au Pairs,
The Leaves,
Nils Olav,
JFA,
Easy Going,
L. Decosne,
The Kinks,
Rufus Thomas,
Camberwell Now,
Maurizio,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Sparks,
Roy Ayers,
A Certain Ratio,
Brand Nubian,
Soul II Soul,
Boz Scaggs,
The Gun Club,
the Sonics,
LL Cool J,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Siglo XX,
the Swans,
Desert Stars,
Stiv Bators,
The Victims,
Oblivians,
Jesper Dahlback,
Moby Grape,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Lou Reed,
Deadbeat,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
CMW,
Kerrie Biddell,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Chris & Cosey,
Can,
Rod Modell,
Kayak,
Essential Logic,
Oneida,
David McCallum,
Joe Smooth,
Gerry Rafferty,
John Lydon,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Byron Stingily,
Simply Red,
Todd Terry,
Animal Collective,
The Sound,
Lalo Schifrin,
Ludus,
Ken Boothe,
the Human League,
Goldenarms,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Dual Sessions, Dual Sessions, Dual Sessions, Dual Sessions.
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.