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 Singapore and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1964 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 synthesizer 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 Larry & the Blue Notes to the crunk 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 Todd Terry. All the underground hits.
All The Toasters tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bob Dylan 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Techniques record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Matthew Halsall,
Barbara Tucker,
The Five Americans,
Section 25,
Maleditus Sound,
The Invisible,
Essential Logic,
Make Up,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Wings,
Connie Case,
Dennis Brown,
The Modern Lovers,
Pierre Henry,
Derrick Morgan,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Dawn Penn,
Kas Product,
Sun Ra,
Jeru the Damaja,
Public Enemy,
K-Klass,
Mantronix,
Erasure,
Funkadelic,
Girls At Our Best!,
Warsaw,
Yaz,
Stockholm Monsters,
Reuben Wilson,
Cymande,
Magma,
Siglo XX,
Brick,
X-Ray Spex,
Kenny Larkin,
Eurythmics,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Offenders,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Motorama,
Smog,
Average White Band,
Eve St. Jones,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Goldenarms,
Carl Craig,
Metal Thangz,
Japan,
Anakelly,
Accadde A,
Gabor Szabo,
The Leaves,
Ronnie Foster,
Malaria!,
Bootsy Collins,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Yellowson,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Lou Christie,
Howard Jones, Howard Jones, Howard Jones, Howard Jones.
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.