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 Guinea and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1968 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Visage to the electroclash 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 Matthew Halsall. All the underground hits.
All Babytalk tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Isaac Hayes 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Altered Images record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Groovy Waters,
Scrapy,
Peter and Kerry,
Model 500,
The Beau Brummels,
Vladislav Delay,
Max Romeo,
Sex Pistols,
The Shadows of Knight,
Essential Logic,
The Standells,
Index,
H. Thieme,
Lyres,
Tropical Tobacco,
Livin' Joy,
Glambeats Corp.,
Von Mondo,
Skarface,
Crooked Eye,
Sunsets and Hearts,
LL Cool J,
Television Personalities,
Icehouse,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
New Order,
Popol Vuh,
Young Marble Giants,
Black Flag,
Drive Like Jehu,
Pet Shop Boys,
Deadbeat,
Half Japanese,
Warsaw,
Ponytail,
Pierre Henry,
Dark Day,
Thee Headcoats,
kango's stein massive,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Saccharine Trust,
Gang of Four,
Grey Daturas,
Jeff Mills,
The Tremeloes,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Archie Shepp,
Deepchord,
The Busters,
Todd Rundgren,
Lalo Schifrin,
Jeru the Damaja,
Erasure,
Public Image Ltd.,
L. Decosne,
Monolake,
Eve St. Jones,
Lucky Dragons,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon.
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.