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 Liberia and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South 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 1961 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 marimba 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 Parry Music to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Barclay James Harvest. All the underground hits.
All Wasted Youth tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Max Romeo record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Tommy Roe,
Lungfish,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Divine Comedy,
Franke,
Pulsallama,
Crime,
Scratch Acid,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Outsiders,
Rosa Yemen,
Flamin' Groovies,
Trumans Water,
Hoover,
Arthur Verocai,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Slave,
Massinfluence,
Gang Green,
Rites of Spring,
Crash Course in Science,
The Fuzztones,
Country Teasers,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Andrew Hill,
Boz Scaggs,
Fear,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Easy Going,
The Flesh Eaters,
Skaos,
Iggy Pop,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Marc Almond,
Anakelly,
Derrick Morgan,
MDC,
Gang of Four,
Mandrill,
The Gun Club,
Crooked Eye,
These Immortal Souls,
The Five Americans,
Glenn Branca,
R.M.O.,
Skarface,
Eddi Front,
Sex Pistols,
Kurtis Blow,
Unrelated Segments,
The Victims,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Raincoats,
Au Pairs,
Radiohead,
The Martian,
Vladislav Delay,
Marine Girls,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Girls At Our Best!,
EPMD, EPMD, EPMD, EPMD.
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.