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 Uganda and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 mellotron 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 Hoover to the techno kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Flipper. All the underground hits.
All Ice-T tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Spoonie Gee record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 Roxette record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bobby Byrd,
Unrelated Segments,
Newcleus,
Cybotron,
Rotary Connection,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Gang of Four,
Barry Ungar,
Lalo Schifrin,
ABBA,
The Slackers,
Black Flag,
Kerri Chandler,
Pulsallama,
X-Ray Spex,
Symarip,
Max Romeo,
LL Cool J,
Tres Demented,
Bang On A Can,
Idris Muhammad,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
La Düsseldorf,
Yazoo,
Excepter,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Flash Fearless,
Infiniti,
The Zeros,
Negative Approach,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Skaos,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Jeru the Damaja,
Intrusion,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Gastr Del Sol,
Wire,
Gichy Dan,
Jerry's Kids,
Sällskapet,
The Fortunes,
Harpers Bizarre,
Vladislav Delay,
Darondo,
Young Marble Giants,
Brass Construction,
Rufus Thomas,
The Searchers,
Interpol,
Zero Boys,
Carl Craig,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Lindisfarne,
Henry Cow,
L. Decosne,
T. Rex,
Crispian St. Peters,
Depeche Mode,
Kool Moe Dee,
Yaz,
Throbbing Gristle,
Leonard Cohen, Leonard Cohen, Leonard Cohen, Leonard Cohen.
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.