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 Fiji and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 Tom Verlaine 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 Scott Walker + Sunn O))) to the techno kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic. All the underground hits.
All The Doobie Brothers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every FM Einheit 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Music Machine record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
a-ha,
Prince Buster,
Television Personalities,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Danielle Patucci,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Stetsasonic,
Crash Course in Science,
The Dirtbombs,
Theoretical Girls,
Brass Construction,
Yazoo,
Moebius,
Angry Samoans,
The Cure,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Mark Hollis,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Grey Daturas,
Faust,
Fatback Band,
The Black Dice,
Cheater Slicks,
Los Fastidios,
Stockholm Monsters,
Johnny Clarke,
Marshall Jefferson,
Pulsallama,
Black Bananas,
The Slackers,
Marc Almond,
Rekid,
Dark Day,
Absolute Body Control,
Echospace,
Nico,
Bob Dylan,
Charles Mingus,
Ituana,
Iggy Pop,
CMW,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Visage,
Sällskapet,
Arcadia,
Public Enemy,
Tropical Tobacco,
Infiniti,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Barry Ungar,
Nation of Ulysses,
Isaac Hayes,
Wally Richardson,
China Crisis,
Bush Tetras,
Mars,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Bootsy Collins,
Drexciya,
Buzzcocks,
Yusef Lateef, Yusef Lateef, Yusef Lateef, Yusef Lateef.
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.