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 Mozambique and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 snare 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 Saccharine Trust to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Rotary Connection. All the underground hits.
All Surgeon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mo-Dettes record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kerri Chandler record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bronski Beat,
ABC,
The Cure,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Idris Muhammad,
Wally Richardson,
Crispian St. Peters,
Kerri Chandler,
The Smiths,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Guru Guru,
Colin Newman,
Curtis Mayfield,
Bill Wells,
JFA,
Henry Cow,
Yusef Lateef,
Drive Like Jehu,
Soft Machine,
Robert Hood,
Eric B and Rakim,
Banda Bassotti,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Kurtis Blow,
Eric Copeland,
Gastr Del Sol,
Whodini,
Aural Exciters,
The Zeros,
Crooked Eye,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Kerrie Biddell,
Dorothy Ashby,
Mark Hollis,
Sexual Harrassment,
Swans,
Pharoah Sanders,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Pop Group,
Groovy Waters,
Echospace,
Joensuu 1685,
Jeff Mills,
Girls At Our Best!,
Barrington Levy,
Intrusion,
The Red Krayola,
Au Pairs,
Aaron Thompson,
Rotary Connection,
Eddi Front,
Shuggie Otis,
The Move,
Skarface,
The Gun Club,
The Monochrome Set,
Funkadelic,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Pere Ubu,
Mandrill,
Public Enemy,
Erykah Badu,
Beasts of Bourbon, Beasts of Bourbon, Beasts of Bourbon, Beasts of Bourbon.
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.