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 Norway and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1961 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Hoover to the techno kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience. All the underground hits.
All Marine Girls tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every MDC record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 guitar and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lizzy Mercier Descloux record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Juan Atkins,
The Trojans,
Warsaw,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
China Crisis,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Schoolly D,
Aaron Thompson,
The Raincoats,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
FM Einheit,
Magma,
Shuggie Otis,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Monochrome Set,
Alton Ellis,
Audionom,
Joyce Sims,
Kayak,
Leonard Cohen,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Rites of Spring,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Blues Magoos,
The Offenders,
Morten Harket,
Boz Scaggs,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The J.B.'s,
Model 500,
Second Layer,
The Stooges,
Pere Ubu,
Quantec,
The Sonics,
48th St. Collective,
The Music Machine,
Robert Wyatt,
Funky Four + One,
Urselle,
John Cale,
Franke,
The Gun Club,
the Soft Cell,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Parry Music,
New Age Steppers,
Ludus,
Von Mondo,
Slick Rick,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Slits,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Pretty Things,
Sugar Minott,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Big Daddy Kane,
Bang On A Can,
Marine Girls, Marine Girls, Marine Girls, Marine Girls.
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.