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 Mexico and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1965 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Harpers Bizarre 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 Hardrive. All the underground hits.
All Maurizio tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 rhodes and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Misunderstood record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Mission of Burma,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The United States of America,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Simply Red,
Wire,
Quadrant,
Oneida,
Saccharine Trust,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Hasil Adkins,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Section 25,
Swell Maps,
The Sound,
Alice Coltrane,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Lyres,
Eric Copeland,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Amon Düül II,
the Human League,
Hot Snakes,
Unrelated Segments,
Arcadia,
Harmonia,
James White and The Blacks,
Warren Ellis,
Altered Images,
Malaria!,
Freddie Wadling,
The Wake,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Dead Boys,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Index,
New York Dolls,
Public Enemy,
The Tremeloes,
The Evens,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Model 500,
A Certain Ratio,
X-102,
Delta 5,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Cecil Taylor,
La Düsseldorf,
Yusef Lateef,
Crash Course in Science,
The Zeros,
Audionom,
The New Christs,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Pere Ubu,
Spandau Ballet,
Deakin,
Marcia Griffiths, Marcia Griffiths, Marcia Griffiths, Marcia Griffiths.
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.