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 Grenada and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage 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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 The Slits to the dance 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 Fela Kuti. All the underground hits.
All The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Alice Coltrane record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lizzy Mercier Descloux record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Janne Schatter,
Minor Threat,
Arthur Verocai,
Roxette,
Jerry's Kids,
Grandmaster Flash,
Joensuu 1685,
Sonny Sharrock,
Lakeside,
Massinfluence,
Althea and Donna,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Flesh Eaters,
FM Einheit,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Gang Starr,
The Residents,
the Human League,
The Mummies,
Scott Walker,
Sam Rivers,
The Velvet Underground,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Suburban Knight,
KRS-One,
Porter Ricks,
The Gun Club,
Excepter,
cv313,
Chris & Cosey,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Faust,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Severed Heads,
Organ,
It's A Beautiful Day,
DJ Style,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Barbara Tucker,
Brand Nubian,
Agent Orange,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Q and Not U,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Stereo Dub,
Fear,
The Trojans,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Reagan Youth,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Echospace,
Marine Girls,
Pierre Henry,
Monks,
Niagra,
Lyres,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Faraquet,
Lightning Bolt,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.