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 Bulgaria and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1960 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 cv313 to the disco kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Negative Approach. All the underground hits.
All Fad Gadget tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every DNA 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Anakelly record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Avey Tare,
Moss Icon,
Tubeway Army,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Rufus Thomas,
The Doors,
cv313,
Byron Stingily,
the Association,
Kerrie Biddell,
Bill Wells,
Adolescents,
June of 44,
Whodini,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Interpol,
Bobby Byrd,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Curtis Mayfield,
Mo-Dettes,
Slick Rick,
Soul II Soul,
Pylon,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Reuben Wilson,
AZ,
Niagra,
a-ha,
The Dave Clark Five,
Matthew Bourne,
Al Stewart,
X-102,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Last Poets,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Can,
Flamin' Groovies,
Agitation Free,
Leonard Cohen,
Stetsasonic,
Spandau Ballet,
The Fire Engines,
Hashim,
Nation of Ulysses,
the Swans,
Zero Boys,
Popol Vuh,
Josef K,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
James Chance & The Contortions,
John Cale,
The Move,
Tommy Roe,
The Knickerbockers,
The Index,
Robert Görl,
Sound Behaviour,
Malaria!,
Todd Terry,
The Sound,
Dead Boys,
Infiniti,
Masters at Work, Masters at Work, Masters at Work, Masters at Work.
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.