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 Moldova and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 spring reverb 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 Lizzy Mercier Descloux to the dance kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Blake Baxter. All the underground hits.
All Silicon Teens tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Crash Course in Science record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Cramps record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
June Days,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Evens,
Gregory Isaacs,
the Swans,
KRS-One,
Gang of Four,
Dual Sessions,
The Count Five,
Nation of Ulysses,
Reagan Youth,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Marcia Griffiths,
Soulsonic Force,
The Birthday Party,
Mr. Review,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
X-101,
Henry Cow,
Main Source,
Cameo,
Dennis Brown,
The Dave Clark Five,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Negative Approach,
The Offenders,
Jesper Dahlback,
Juan Atkins,
the Association,
X-102,
Grandmaster Flash,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
the Slits,
Electric Prunes,
The Beau Brummels,
The Vogues,
Darondo,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Theoretical Girls,
Scion,
Liliput,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Suicide,
Spandau Ballet,
Quando Quango,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Patti Smith,
a-ha,
Royal Trux,
David Axelrod,
Johnny Clarke,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
D'Angelo,
Desert Stars,
the Sonics,
Boz Scaggs,
The Searchers, The Searchers, The Searchers, The Searchers.
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.