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 Benin and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1967 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 Michael McDonald 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 U.S. Maple to the grime 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 Kango’s Stein Massive. All the underground hits.
All Underground Resistance tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eddi Front 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ash Ra Tempel record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
James Chance & The Contortions,
Von Mondo,
Skriet,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Technova,
X-Ray Spex,
The Fuzztones,
The Move,
The Shadows of Knight,
Gang Starr,
Black Flag,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Remains,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Warsaw,
Pantytec,
Sparks,
Animal Collective,
Lalo Schifrin,
Shuggie Otis,
The Victims,
Johnny Clarke,
Boogie Down Productions,
Silicon Teens,
Unrelated Segments,
Porter Ricks,
Agent Orange,
K-Klass,
Ossler,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Leaves,
kango's stein massive,
Sonny Sharrock,
The American Breed,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
the Soft Cell,
Graham Central Station,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Real Kids,
Q65,
48th St. Collective,
Eve St. Jones,
Surgeon,
The Offenders,
The Dead C,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Flamin' Groovies,
Roy Ayers,
Pantaleimon,
Mission of Burma,
Gang Green,
Fugazi,
Patti Smith,
Little Man,
ABBA,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
John Coltrane,
DNA,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
the Association,
Wolf Eyes,
Theoretical Girls, Theoretical Girls, Theoretical Girls, Theoretical Girls.
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.