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 Vanuatu and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 sitar 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 Joensuu 1685 to the dance kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Ajijia Myrayebe. All the underground hits.
All Cymande tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Neu! 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sly & The Family Stone record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Todd Terry,
Slick Rick,
Jacques Brel,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Alton Ellis,
Livin' Joy,
Mark Hollis,
Rotary Connection,
Peter and Kerry,
Davy DMX,
Bobby Byrd,
Hashim,
The Divine Comedy,
Symarip,
Todd Rundgren,
the Germs,
Patti Smith,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Schoolly D,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Junior Murvin,
John Cale,
Model 500,
June Days,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
In Retrospect,
The Dirtbombs,
Loose Ends,
OOIOO,
The Velvet Underground,
Youth Brigade,
Fat Boys,
JFA,
Jeff Lynne,
Procol Harum,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Minnie Riperton,
PIL,
Derrick Morgan,
Nick Fraelich,
Blancmange,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Roy Ayers,
Crooked Eye,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Crispian St. Peters,
Ralphi Rosario,
Howard Jones,
the Swans,
a-ha,
Sun Ra,
Zero Boys,
The Litter,
Man Eating Sloth,
Echospace,
Pet Shop Boys,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap, Gary Puckett & The Union Gap, Gary Puckett & The Union Gap, Gary Puckett & The Union Gap.
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.