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 St Lucia and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1963 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 theremin 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 The Last Poets to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Royal Trux. All the underground hits.
All Yellowson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Easy Going record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a kango's stein massive record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Matthew Halsall,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Gastr Del Sol,
Rekid,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Marvin Gaye,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Moss Icon,
Rakim,
Bang On A Can,
The Motions,
Fluxion,
Stiv Bators,
Curtis Mayfield,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Nico,
Rapeman,
Porter Ricks,
China Crisis,
Drexciya,
Second Layer,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Talk Talk,
JFA,
Banda Bassotti,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Easy Going,
Johnny Clarke,
Slave,
Agent Orange,
Girls At Our Best!,
Erykah Badu,
Terry Callier,
Fatback Band,
James White and The Blacks,
The Associates,
Neu!,
The Moleskins,
Aswad,
The Martian,
Public Enemy,
Nas,
Mad Mike,
Eric Copeland,
The Fortunes,
Arthur Verocai,
Moby Grape,
The Knickerbockers,
The Evens,
Simply Red,
Lebanon Hanover,
Deakin,
The Moody Blues,
Morten Harket,
The Count Five,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Vainqueur,
These Immortal Souls,
Rosa Yemen,
Mark Hollis,
Procol Harum,
The Happenings, The Happenings, The Happenings, The Happenings.
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.