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 Micronesia and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Roy Ayers to the grunge 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 Cowsills. All the underground hits.
All Ituana tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Robert Görl record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 spring reverb and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
CMW,
Chris & Cosey,
The Angels of Light,
Bauhaus,
Radiopuhelimet,
Soul II Soul,
Agitation Free,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Associates,
Gabor Szabo,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Dennis Brown,
Donald Byrd,
Echospace,
Radiohead,
PIL,
Colin Newman,
Pet Shop Boys,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Anthony Braxton,
The Fugs,
Angry Samoans,
Skarface,
The Beau Brummels,
Eurythmics,
Ronnie Foster,
Negative Approach,
cv313,
Boredoms,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Fort Wilson Riot,
a-ha,
Accadde A,
The New Christs,
Bang On A Can,
Pere Ubu,
Interpol,
The Black Dice,
The Music Machine,
ABC,
Tropical Tobacco,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Pylon,
Basic Channel,
The Walker Brothers,
Alison Limerick,
Yellowson,
Bobby Sherman,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Moody Blues,
Public Enemy,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Knickerbockers,
Minutemen,
Rotary Connection,
R.M.O.,
Minor Threat,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Dave Clark Five, The Dave Clark Five, The Dave Clark Five, The Dave Clark Five.
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.