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 Slovakia and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1967 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 EPMD to the punk 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 Fear. All the underground hits.
All Pierre Henry tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Symarip record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 a chamberlin and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Agitation Free,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Selecter,
Lakeside,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Bill Near,
Absolute Body Control,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Kaleidoscope,
Todd Terry,
Severed Heads,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Soul II Soul,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
X-102,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Todd Rundgren,
Gang Green,
Jacob Miller,
Heaven 17,
Fat Boys,
Lyres,
The Human League,
The Doobie Brothers,
R.M.O.,
The Happenings,
Eric B and Rakim,
John Foxx,
Magazine,
Big Daddy Kane,
Eric Copeland,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Parry Music,
Pylon,
The Barracudas,
June Days,
Piero Umiliani,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Jeru the Damaja,
Siglo XX,
The Detroit Cobras,
Stereo Dub,
The Angels of Light,
Delon & Dalcan,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Nick Fraelich,
Babytalk,
Fela Kuti,
Sister Nancy,
The Motions,
The Blackbyrds,
Oneida,
Technova,
Jeff Mills,
the Human League,
Neu!,
James White and The Blacks,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
K-Klass,
Patti Smith,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Gun Club,
Reagan Youth,
Roger Hodgson, Roger Hodgson, Roger Hodgson, Roger Hodgson.
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.