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 Chad and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1969 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 marimba 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 cv313 to the disco 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 Ossler. All the underground hits.
All Justin Hinds & The Dominoes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Grey Daturas record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 güiro and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cybotron record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Amon Düül II,
Unwound,
Joy Division,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Prince Buster,
DNA,
Technova,
Gang Green,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Dennis Brown,
F. McDonald,
Ponytail,
Jerry's Kids,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Schoolly D,
Mantronix,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Roy Ayers,
Dual Sessions,
Joe Smooth,
Isaac Hayes,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Harpers Bizarre,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
The Moody Blues,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Raincoats,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Robert Hood,
Archie Shepp,
Au Pairs,
Black Moon,
Glenn Branca,
Kayak,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
EPMD,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Gladiators,
a-ha,
The Leaves,
Goldenarms,
The Evens,
Terry Callier,
LL Cool J,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Circle Jerks,
Barrington Levy,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
JFA,
Thompson Twins,
The Sonics,
Aloha Tigers,
Trumans Water,
Kurtis Blow,
James White and The Blacks,
Wire,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Gang of Four,
Stereo Dub, Stereo Dub, Stereo Dub, Stereo Dub.
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.