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 Sri Lanka and from Spokane.
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 1962 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Halifax.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 oboe 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 Todd Terry to the disco 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 Eddi Front. All the underground hits.
All The Zeros tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lungfish 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter & Gordon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Y Pants,
DNA,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Skatalites,
Loose Ends,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Barclay James Harvest,
Model 500,
the Fania All-Stars,
Sun Ra,
Gerry Rafferty,
Crispian St. Peters,
Rapeman,
Von Mondo,
Erykah Badu,
June Days,
Main Source,
Reuben Wilson,
Kevin Saunderson,
Traffic Nightmare,
Adolescents,
The Fugs,
X-Ray Spex,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Sandy B,
Neil Young,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Terry Callier,
Blossom Toes,
Rosa Yemen,
Scion,
Cluster,
Derrick May,
A Certain Ratio,
Urselle,
Wasted Youth,
Joy Division,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Durutti Column,
Matthew Bourne,
Quantec,
Faraquet,
Leonard Cohen,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Agent Orange,
Grauzone,
Lalo Schifrin,
Henry Cow,
the Sonics,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Roy Ayers,
Thee Headcoats,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Beau Brummels,
Brothers Johnson,
The Gun Club,
Supertramp,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
China Crisis,
Soul II Soul,
Todd Rundgren,
The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Jesus and Mary Chain.
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.