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 Dominican Republic and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1966 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 rhodes 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 Loose Ends to the jazz kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Minny Pops. All the underground hits.
All Barclay James Harvest tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bobby Hutcherson 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Grauzone record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Darondo,
Aural Exciters,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The Five Americans,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Sam Rivers,
D'Angelo,
kango's stein massive,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Sonic Youth,
FM Einheit,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Jeff Mills,
The Mummies,
Graham Central Station,
Delon & Dalcan,
Juan Atkins,
Rakim,
Alice Coltrane,
8 Eyed Spy,
the Fania All-Stars,
In Retrospect,
The Tremeloes,
Soul Sonic Force,
Dual Sessions,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Jerry's Kids,
Model 500,
Pet Shop Boys,
Pharoah Sanders,
Main Source,
Blake Baxter,
Symarip,
John Holt,
Pantaleimon,
Fluxion,
The Martian,
CMW,
The Shadows of Knight,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Bootsy Collins,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Deepchord,
Aswad,
Vladislav Delay,
Quadrant,
World's Most,
The Black Dice,
The Pretty Things,
Glambeats Corp.,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Sällskapet,
Johnny Clarke,
These Immortal Souls,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Lalann,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Robert Hood,
the Sonics,
Vainqueur,
Crime,
Crispian St. Peters,
Todd Rundgren,
Grey Daturas,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam.
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.