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 St Kitts & Nevis and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1969 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 güiro 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 The Skatalites to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Mark Hollis. All the underground hits.
All Tres Demented tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Negative Approach 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Trojans record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
In Retrospect,
Lou Christie,
The Cramps,
JFA,
The Sound,
The Gories,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Todd Terry,
Lou Reed,
Television,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Mantronix,
Frankie Knuckles,
Angry Samoans,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Blancmange,
Althea and Donna,
The Flesh Eaters,
Jesper Dahlback,
Trumans Water,
Kayak,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Zero Boys,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The United States of America,
Derrick Morgan,
Los Fastidios,
Rekid,
Eric Copeland,
Warsaw,
The Victims,
Average White Band,
Unwound,
Camouflage,
Franke,
Gang Gang Dance,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Surgeon,
Tres Demented,
The Moody Blues,
Idris Muhammad,
Brass Construction,
Magma,
The Shadows of Knight,
Dave Gahan,
Duran Duran,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
AZ,
Kaleidoscope,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Soulsonic Force,
Joyce Sims,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Youth Brigade,
The Monochrome Set,
Moss Icon,
The Fuzztones,
Max Romeo,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Prince Buster,
Black Sheep,
The Sonics, The Sonics, The Sonics, The Sonics.
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.