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 Yemen and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1966 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 1968 at the first Can practice in a loft in Cologne.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 CMW to the electroclash 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 The Seeds. All the underground hits.
All JFA tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Radiopuhelimet 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Marshall Jefferson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Electric Light Orchestra,
Siglo XX,
Thompson Twins,
8 Eyed Spy,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Lou Reed,
The Gladiators,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Donny Hathaway,
the Slits,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Nik Kershaw,
Agent Orange,
Lyres,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Stiv Bators,
Peter & Gordon,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Erasure,
10cc,
Joy Division,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Saints,
Tropical Tobacco,
a-ha,
The Slackers,
New York Dolls,
Nation of Ulysses,
Metal Thangz,
Section 25,
Dark Day,
Quadrant,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Gong,
X-Ray Spex,
The Music Machine,
Ice-T,
Ituana,
Tubeway Army,
Jacques Brel,
Arthur Verocai,
Saccharine Trust,
The Zeros,
Mo-Dettes,
Cecil Taylor,
These Immortal Souls,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Popol Vuh,
Groovy Waters,
Surgeon,
Mark Hollis,
Suicide,
Gang Starr,
Camberwell Now,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
UT,
Isaac Hayes,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Ohio Players,
Eric Dolphy,
The Divine Comedy, The Divine Comedy, The Divine Comedy, The Divine Comedy.
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.