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 Tunisia and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Todd Terry to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Japan. All the underground hits.
All La Düsseldorf tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Can record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Isaac Hayes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Siglo XX,
Todd Rundgren,
Mandrill,
Quantec,
Robert Görl,
Motorama,
kango's stein massive,
Monolake,
Unwound,
Lou Reed,
Lindisfarne,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Gastr Del Sol,
Inner City,
Silicon Teens,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Sonics,
Smog,
Slick Rick,
Be Bop Deluxe,
UT,
Young Marble Giants,
Letta Mbulu,
Grey Daturas,
Laurel Aitken,
Robert Wyatt,
Lower 48,
The United States of America,
Popol Vuh,
Piero Umiliani,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Gang of Four,
Howard Jones,
Leonard Cohen,
the Bar-Kays,
Royal Trux,
Barclay James Harvest,
Animal Collective,
Junior Murvin,
ABBA,
Yellowson,
Tears for Fears,
The American Breed,
Echospace,
Altered Images,
X-102,
Gang Starr,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Circle Jerks,
Toni Rubio,
Aaron Thompson,
New York Dolls,
Wings,
The Black Dice,
Duran Duran,
This Heat,
Aloha Tigers,
Monks,
Underground Resistance,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
the Germs,
Derrick Morgan, Derrick Morgan, Derrick Morgan, Derrick Morgan.
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.