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 Mauritius and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise show in London.
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 1966 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Arthur Verocai to the rap kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Minor Threat. All the underground hits.
All Malaria! tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Charles Mingus record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kas Product,
Todd Rundgren,
Franke,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Moebius,
Matthew Bourne,
Ultravox,
Flipper,
Camberwell Now,
Leonard Cohen,
Junior Murvin,
Moss Icon,
Aswad,
Amon Düül II,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Lalann,
The Dirtbombs,
Roxy Music,
Flamin' Groovies,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Selecter,
Newcleus,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Laurel Aitken,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Mad Mike,
Slave,
The Slackers,
China Crisis,
Boogie Down Productions,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Lower 48,
Agent Orange,
Piero Umiliani,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Delon & Dalcan,
Smog,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Babytalk,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Quantec,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Johnny Clarke,
Bootsy Collins,
Agitation Free,
Skriet,
the Soft Cell,
The Gladiators,
Amazonics,
Von Mondo,
ABC,
Jimmy McGriff,
Basic Channel,
The Smoke,
Dave Gahan,
Lebanon Hanover,
Zapp,
The Seeds,
Popol Vuh,
Lakeside,
Kenny Larkin,
Gastr Del Sol, Gastr Del Sol, Gastr Del Sol, Gastr Del Sol.
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.