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 Latvia and from Accra.
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 1963 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 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 Accadde A to the rap kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Cal Tjader. All the underground hits.
All Bad Manners tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Leonard Cohen record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 spring reverb and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rhythim Is Rhythim 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?
Nick Fraelich,
John Cale,
Livin' Joy,
Model 500,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Amon Düül II,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Sonny Sharrock,
Absolute Body Control,
the Soft Cell,
Warsaw,
Kerrie Biddell,
Tropical Tobacco,
Cymande,
The Standells,
Graham Central Station,
The Fugs,
Delon & Dalcan,
Wally Richardson,
Todd Rundgren,
The Dirtbombs,
Shoche,
The Buckinghams,
David Axelrod,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Slick Rick,
8 Eyed Spy,
The Residents,
Todd Terry,
The Saints,
Basic Channel,
Janne Schatter,
David Bowie,
Bobby Sherman,
Eurythmics,
Tommy Roe,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Grauzone,
Ludus,
Ituana,
Danielle Patucci,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Drive Like Jehu,
Marshall Jefferson,
the Sonics,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
New Age Steppers,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Raincoats,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Arcadia,
Porter Ricks,
This Heat,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Lyres,
Blancmange,
Scratch Acid,
A Certain Ratio,
Stiv Bators,
Rekid, Rekid, Rekid, Rekid.
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.