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 Marshall Islands and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 Lagos.
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 1971 at the first Neu! practice in a loft in Düsseldorf.
I was working on the rhodes 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 kango's stein massive to the grime kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Golliwogs. All the underground hits.
All Essential Logic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Susan Cadogan record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 808 and a marimba 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 mellotron and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Connie Case,
Blake Baxter,
Buzzcocks,
Nils Olav,
Boogie Down Productions,
Joe Smooth,
Monolake,
Shuggie Otis,
CMW,
Derrick Morgan,
Brass Construction,
Sällskapet,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Tubeway Army,
The Flesh Eaters,
Fugazi,
The Slits,
Tim Buckley,
The Red Krayola,
Outsiders,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Glambeats Corp.,
John Foxx,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Intrusion,
Tom Boy,
Nation of Ulysses,
Ponytail,
One Last Wish,
Kayak,
Easy Going,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Country Teasers,
Lou Reed,
The Beau Brummels,
Charles Mingus,
Sonic Youth,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Eve St. Jones,
The Angels of Light,
Juan Atkins,
Big Daddy Kane,
The Star Department,
the Normal,
Smog,
Bob Dylan,
AZ,
Black Moon,
The Seeds,
Aural Exciters,
Young Marble Giants,
MC5,
Porter Ricks,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Circle Jerks,
Severed Heads,
The Black Dice,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The Golliwogs,
the Soft Cell,
The Knickerbockers,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity, Roy Ayers Ubiquity, Roy Ayers Ubiquity, Roy Ayers Ubiquity.
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.