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 Macedonia and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1970.
I was there at the first Onyeabor show in Enugu.
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 1963 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Stetsasonic to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Fugazi. All the underground hits.
All Maurizio tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every John Foxx record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Angry Samoans,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Blossom Toes,
Loose Ends,
X-102,
Guru Guru,
Panda Bear,
Das Ding,
cv313,
K-Klass,
The Last Poets,
The Selecter,
The Names,
Crime,
Connie Case,
FM Einheit,
Drexciya,
The Red Krayola,
Throbbing Gristle,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Eden Ahbez,
Youth Brigade,
Archie Shepp,
Neu!,
CMW,
Little Man,
Silicon Teens,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Arthur Verocai,
Audionom,
Quando Quango,
Pierre Henry,
The Five Americans,
Los Fastidios,
Japan,
Malaria!,
Bizarre Inc.,
Talk Talk,
Crispian St. Peters,
Supertramp,
Jimmy McGriff,
Warren Ellis,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Marc Almond,
Hasil Adkins,
Shuggie Otis,
Lou Christie,
Cluster,
John Foxx,
Ludus,
Deadbeat,
Andrew Hill,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Procol Harum,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Nirvana,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Jacob Miller,
Henry Cow,
Josef K,
the Swans,
Ten City,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Sällskapet,
Brothers Johnson, Brothers Johnson, Brothers Johnson, Brothers Johnson.
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.