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 Luxembourg and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 David Bowie 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 Joey Negro to the grime kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Bill Wells. All the underground hits.
All Ronan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lizzy Mercier Descloux 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a U.S. Maple record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Chris & Cosey,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
kango's stein massive,
The Music Machine,
X-102,
Junior Murvin,
The Residents,
Q and Not U,
Royal Trux,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Main Source,
Flamin' Groovies,
Funkadelic,
Marmalade,
Mars,
The Slackers,
The Motions,
The Shadows of Knight,
Das Ding,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
David Axelrod,
Amon Düül,
A Certain Ratio,
Crispy Ambulance,
Ludus,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
cv313,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Invisible,
Lungfish,
In Retrospect,
Tomorrow,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Matthew Halsall,
Joe Finger,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Fuzztones,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Audionom,
The Offenders,
Mary Jane Girls,
Aaron Thompson,
Sällskapet,
The Names,
Vainqueur,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Agitation Free,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
The Dirtbombs, The Dirtbombs, The Dirtbombs, The Dirtbombs.
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.