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 Qatar and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1968 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Joyce Sims to the techno 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 Dennis Brown. All the underground hits.
All Fear tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every June of 44 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Nation of Ulysses record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Remains,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Silicon Teens,
The Last Poets,
Warsaw,
One Last Wish,
Barrington Levy,
Fugazi,
The Fuzztones,
The Star Department,
Nils Olav,
The Monochrome Set,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Vogues,
The Raincoats,
DJ Style,
Chris Corsano,
Funky Four + One,
Sonny Sharrock,
Lalo Schifrin,
Country Teasers,
Loose Ends,
FM Einheit,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Symarip,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
KRS-One,
JFA,
Gang Starr,
48th St. Collective,
Kool Moe Dee,
Blancmange,
Grandmaster Flash,
Eve St. Jones,
Arcadia,
Roxette,
The Cure,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Swell Maps,
Tres Demented,
UT,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Darondo,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
the Bar-Kays,
Tom Boy,
Model 500,
Bobby Womack,
The Seeds,
Yaz,
Public Enemy,
Soul Sonic Force,
Babytalk,
Eurythmics,
Duran Duran,
Joe Smooth,
Ponytail,
Mark Hollis,
Sly & The Family Stone, Sly & The Family Stone, Sly & The Family Stone, Sly & The Family Stone.
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.