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 Morocco and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Spokane.
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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Sly & The Family Stone to the grunge kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft. All the underground hits.
All The Music Machine tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every New Age Steppers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Flipper,
Brass Construction,
Trumans Water,
Joensuu 1685,
Marvin Gaye,
Jeff Mills,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Black Moon,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Motions,
Audionom,
the Bar-Kays,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Q and Not U,
Robert Görl,
The Offenders,
X-101,
Michelle Simonal,
Masters at Work,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Gang Green,
Banda Bassotti,
Alphaville,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Big Daddy Kane,
Brand Nubian,
Whodini,
Marmalade,
Little Man,
Organ,
Pierre Henry,
Minor Threat,
The Moody Blues,
Moebius,
Scrapy,
KRS-One,
Toni Rubio,
Iggy Pop,
Crispian St. Peters,
The Vogues,
Faust,
The Happenings,
Boogie Down Productions,
Sexual Harrassment,
Silicon Teens,
Lindisfarne,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Neu!,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Tubeway Army,
June Days,
JFA,
The Walker Brothers,
Second Layer,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Model 500,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Fela Kuti,
Pulsallama,
Oneida,
Ajijia Myrayebe, Ajijia Myrayebe, Ajijia Myrayebe, Ajijia Myrayebe.
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.