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 Tajikistan and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 Beijing and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 Marmalade to the rap kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Audionom. All the underground hits.
All Faraquet tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every June Days record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Erasure record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gregory Isaacs,
Vladislav Delay,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Siglo XX,
Alice Coltrane,
Scion,
Donny Hathaway,
X-101,
Tubeway Army,
Surgeon,
Robert Wyatt,
Porter Ricks,
The Monks,
Minor Threat,
The Gun Club,
The Leaves,
Pantytec,
Rotary Connection,
Soul Sonic Force,
Lyres,
Parry Music,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Ossler,
Brass Construction,
Colin Newman,
Cecil Taylor,
Ituana,
Swans,
Wings,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Carl Craig,
U.S. Maple,
The Happenings,
Quantec,
F. McDonald,
Gastr Del Sol,
Livin' Joy,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Crash Course in Science,
Little Man,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Funky Four + One,
Yaz,
Marshall Jefferson,
New Age Steppers,
H. Thieme,
David Axelrod,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Mark Hollis,
The Doors,
cv313,
Qualms,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Pylon,
Glenn Branca,
Roy Ayers,
The Raincoats,
Stetsasonic, Stetsasonic, Stetsasonic, Stetsasonic.
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.