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 Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Bremen.
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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the clarinet 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 Motorama to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Morten Harket. All the underground hits.
All Ludus tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lucky Dragons 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Von Mondo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Human League,
Funkadelic,
Spoonie Gee,
Bill Wells,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Buckinghams,
Rosa Yemen,
F. McDonald,
X-101,
Sight & Sound,
The Dirtbombs,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Ten City,
The Toasters,
The Fugs,
The Fortunes,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Joy Division,
The Gap Band,
Surgeon,
Essential Logic,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Brothers Johnson,
Kurtis Blow,
Kool Moe Dee,
Charles Mingus,
Minnie Riperton,
Los Fastidios,
Flipper,
Loose Ends,
FM Einheit,
Unrelated Segments,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Gun Club,
The Searchers,
Junior Murvin,
Sandy B,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Gang Gang Dance,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Alarm Clocks,
The Monks,
Magma,
Lalann,
Janne Schatter,
Fat Boys,
The Dead C,
Delon & Dalcan,
Nick Fraelich,
Parry Music,
Quadrant,
Gang of Four,
Johnny Osbourne,
Newcleus,
Eric Copeland,
Nas,
Ultra Naté,
The Monochrome Set,
kango's stein massive,
Max Romeo,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon.
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.