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 Micronesia and from Portland.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 chamberlin 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 Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five to the rock 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 Country Joe & The Fish. All the underground hits.
All Nation of Ulysses tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pylon 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bobbi Humphrey record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Wings,
Stereo Dub,
Hashim,
Tubeway Army,
Inner City,
Average White Band,
The Pop Group,
Al Stewart,
Main Source,
Saccharine Trust,
Crispy Ambulance,
Pet Shop Boys,
Arthur Verocai,
The Doors,
Pierre Henry,
The Names,
Scientists,
The Buckinghams,
Gang of Four,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The J.B.'s,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Livin' Joy,
The Angels of Light,
Minutemen,
Second Layer,
Pylon,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Monks,
Pere Ubu,
Can,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Robert Hood,
The Gories,
Rotary Connection,
KRS-One,
Depeche Mode,
The Techniques,
Electric Light Orchestra,
the Bar-Kays,
Black Moon,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Banda Bassotti,
The Evens,
Aaron Thompson,
Bootsy Collins,
Ten City,
The Selecter,
T. Rex,
Jawbox,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Swans,
Yaz,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Red Krayola,
Clear Light,
Harmonia,
Crooked Eye,
Electric Prunes,
10cc, 10cc, 10cc, 10cc.
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.