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 Cape Verde and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise show in 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 Johannesburg and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 sitar 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 Underground Resistance to the jazz kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Strawberry Alarm Clock. All the underground hits.
All The Doors tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nirvana record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 sitar and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Byron Stingily record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Ultimate Spinach,
Alphaville,
Warren Ellis,
Maurizio,
K-Klass,
Dorothy Ashby,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Main Source,
Schoolly D,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
a-ha,
Urselle,
Charles Mingus,
DJ Sneak,
Scion,
Essential Logic,
Nirvana,
T. Rex,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Curtis Mayfield,
Howard Jones,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Black Flag,
Anthony Braxton,
Massinfluence,
Stiv Bators,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Bobby Byrd,
Soft Cell,
Piero Umiliani,
Joy Division,
Roxette,
Crime,
X-102,
Davy DMX,
Marine Girls,
Wolf Eyes,
Dark Day,
Talk Talk,
Blossom Toes,
Silicon Teens,
Rapeman,
Wally Richardson,
Goldenarms,
Soul Sonic Force,
Todd Rundgren,
Alison Limerick,
Faraquet,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
U.S. Maple,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Kinks,
John Coltrane,
OOIOO,
the Association,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Mantronix,
Mad Mike, Mad Mike, Mad Mike, Mad Mike.
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.