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 Kenya and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1964 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Andrew Hill to the electroclash 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 Swell Maps. All the underground hits.
All Danielle Patucci tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Busters record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Adolescents,
Anakelly,
Alison Limerick,
The Durutti Column,
EPMD,
Crispian St. Peters,
The Blues Magoos,
Talk Talk,
The Techniques,
Zapp,
Charles Mingus,
Ronan,
Crash Course in Science,
Yusef Lateef,
Pantaleimon,
Pantytec,
Panda Bear,
Lightning Bolt,
Los Fastidios,
The Electric Prunes,
Cal Tjader,
John Coltrane,
The Flesh Eaters,
Radiohead,
ABC,
The Vogues,
Lakeside,
Marc Almond,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Camouflage,
R.M.O.,
Tears for Fears,
John Holt,
CMW,
Connie Case,
Spoonie Gee,
Swell Maps,
The Associates,
Unrelated Segments,
New York Dolls,
The Divine Comedy,
the Germs,
10cc,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Offenders,
Jeru the Damaja,
Marmalade,
Theoretical Girls,
Brothers Johnson,
Second Layer,
Eden Ahbez,
Alice Coltrane,
Delon & Dalcan,
Youth Brigade,
Rapeman,
The Walker Brothers,
Severed Heads,
The Doors,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Pretty Things,
Matthew Halsall,
Subhumans, Subhumans, Subhumans, Subhumans.
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.