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 Gambia and from Milan.
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 1965 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 organ 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 Altered Images to the crunk 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 Derrick Morgan. All the underground hits.
All Oneida tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Erasure 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lou Reed & Metallica record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Pole,
The Monochrome Set,
Piero Umiliani,
Gerry Rafferty,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Suburban Knight,
10cc,
The Slackers,
Newcleus,
Bad Manners,
Schoolly D,
Gong,
The Raincoats,
Organ,
Arab on Radar,
The Modern Lovers,
Radio Birdman,
Ponytail,
Brothers Johnson,
Marc Almond,
Reagan Youth,
Glambeats Corp.,
Robert Wyatt,
June Days,
Don Cherry,
R.M.O.,
Unrelated Segments,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Symarip,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Essential Logic,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Marine Girls,
The Residents,
Fluxion,
Subhumans,
The Fall,
Yazoo,
Livin' Joy,
Groovy Waters,
Oblivians,
Rites of Spring,
Spoonie Gee,
Cymande,
Ohio Players,
Judy Mowatt,
The Gories,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Sandy B,
Stereo Dub,
Godley & Creme,
The Fortunes,
The Searchers,
the Association,
Au Pairs,
Joe Finger,
Das Ding,
Lee Hazlewood, Lee Hazlewood, Lee Hazlewood, Lee Hazlewood.
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.