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 Oman and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1962 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Johnny Osbourne to the rap 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 Slick Rick. All the underground hits.
All La Düsseldorf tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every La Düsseldorf record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Leonard Cohen record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Radiopuhelimet,
Stiv Bators,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Moss Icon,
Section 25,
Sight & Sound,
Joe Finger,
Vainqueur,
Lightning Bolt,
Delon & Dalcan,
Whodini,
Subhumans,
Minutemen,
Suburban Knight,
Tubeway Army,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
FM Einheit,
Gang of Four,
Erykah Badu,
Byron Stingily,
Ossler,
Todd Terry,
The Flesh Eaters,
the Swans,
Boogie Down Productions,
Sandy B,
Ponytail,
Slave,
the Slits,
Trumans Water,
Joe Smooth,
The Move,
Shuggie Otis,
Sugar Minott,
The Velvet Underground,
Amon Düül II,
Roxette,
AZ,
The Cowsills,
The Index,
The Standells,
Goldenarms,
Susan Cadogan,
Chris Corsano,
Roxy Music,
Mantronix,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Bluetip,
Dawn Penn,
Funky Four + One,
Cymande,
The Five Americans,
The Human League,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Camberwell Now,
Quando Quango,
Mission of Burma,
Nico,
Royal Trux,
Sex Pistols,
Marvin Gaye, Marvin Gaye, Marvin Gaye, Marvin Gaye.
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.