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 Syria and from London.
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 1961 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the 808 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 Lindisfarne to the punk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Joensuu 1685. All the underground hits.
All Urselle tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Associates record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Negative Approach record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Newcleus,
Depeche Mode,
The Cowsills,
Deakin,
Aaron Thompson,
Bobby Sherman,
Sun City Girls,
Marmalade,
June Days,
Bob Dylan,
Nirvana,
EPMD,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Gabor Szabo,
New Age Steppers,
Bad Manners,
R.M.O.,
Letta Mbulu,
Intrusion,
The Electric Prunes,
Todd Terry,
Hashim,
Mantronix,
Average White Band,
UT,
The Fuzztones,
The Move,
Simply Red,
Steve Hackett,
Tom Boy,
Fat Boys,
Crooked Eye,
Alphaville,
Basic Channel,
Blake Baxter,
Underground Resistance,
Guru Guru,
Swell Maps,
cv313,
Chris & Cosey,
X-101,
the Slits,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Max Romeo,
Wolf Eyes,
Oneida,
Cameo,
Metal Thangz,
David Bowie,
Hardrive,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Brothers Johnson,
The Searchers,
The Last Poets,
Dorothy Ashby,
Jesper Dahlback,
Wings,
Fluxion,
The Black Dice,
In Retrospect,
Unrelated Segments, Unrelated Segments, Unrelated Segments, Unrelated Segments.
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.