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 Comoros and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 Donald Fagen 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 Reagan Youth 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 Lebanon Hanover. All the underground hits.
All H. Thieme tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cameo record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joe Smooth record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gregory Isaacs,
Maurizio,
Gichy Dan,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Niagra,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Todd Rundgren,
Arab on Radar,
Cheater Slicks,
Connie Case,
Byron Stingily,
T. Rex,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Livin' Joy,
Eden Ahbez,
Oneida,
Cymande,
Derrick Morgan,
Malaria!,
The Skatalites,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Letta Mbulu,
Ultravox,
Pierre Henry,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Bob Dylan,
Don Cherry,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Charles Mingus,
a-ha,
EPMD,
D'Angelo,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Tremeloes,
10cc,
The Remains,
Leonard Cohen,
Susan Cadogan,
The New Christs,
The Names,
Groovy Waters,
Sam Rivers,
the Bar-Kays,
The Gun Club,
The Misunderstood,
Tears for Fears,
Man Parrish,
The Stooges,
Steve Hackett,
Jeff Lynne,
Suicide,
Spandau Ballet,
Country Teasers,
Barrington Levy,
The Real Kids,
Moss Icon,
The Cowsills,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Kas Product,
The Smoke, The Smoke, The Smoke, The Smoke.
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.