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 Ukraine and from Manchester.
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 1966 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 guitar 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 Eurythmics to the crunk 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 Television Personalities. All the underground hits.
All Sunsets and Hearts tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mantronix record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Human League record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Arthur Verocai,
Grandmaster Flash,
Reagan Youth,
Sound Behaviour,
The Slackers,
the Swans,
The Monochrome Set,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Liliput,
Agitation Free,
EPMD,
Roy Ayers,
Bluetip,
The Shadows of Knight,
Junior Murvin,
Bobby Byrd,
The Saints,
Cluster,
Brand Nubian,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Dennis Brown,
Basic Channel,
The Sonics,
Royal Trux,
The Gap Band,
Lalo Schifrin,
Kaleidoscope,
Absolute Body Control,
Leonard Cohen,
Von Mondo,
Sällskapet,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Max Romeo,
Minor Threat,
Jacob Miller,
Buzzcocks,
Outsiders,
The Zeros,
Rapeman,
the Germs,
Wolf Eyes,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Index,
Lou Reed,
Maleditus Sound,
Half Japanese,
Animal Collective,
Skriet,
Iggy Pop,
H. Thieme,
Thompson Twins,
Radio Birdman,
The Mojo Men,
Second Layer,
One Last Wish,
Gil Scott Heron,
CMW,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Peter and Kerry,
Soulsonic Force,
DeepChord presents Echospace, DeepChord presents Echospace, DeepChord presents Echospace, DeepChord presents Echospace.
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.