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 Romania and from Lyon.
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 1962 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Manila.
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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Patti Smith to the crunk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Lalann. All the underground hits.
All Shoche tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Harmonia record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a DNA record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Toni Rubio,
DJ Style,
Wings,
The Mojo Men,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Gregory Isaacs,
Erykah Badu,
Marc Almond,
AZ,
Johnny Clarke,
Frankie Knuckles,
Bootsy Collins,
Groovy Waters,
Blossom Toes,
Prince Buster,
Make Up,
Sister Nancy,
The Dave Clark Five,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Ken Boothe,
EPMD,
The Birthday Party,
Sonic Youth,
Moebius,
Chris & Cosey,
Joe Finger,
David Axelrod,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Sexual Harrassment,
Symarip,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Bobby Byrd,
Tom Boy,
Pussy Galore,
The Martian,
Negative Approach,
Blancmange,
The Golliwogs,
Swell Maps,
Ultimate Spinach,
Aaron Thompson,
Dennis Brown,
Grauzone,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Gories,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Bobby Sherman,
The Moody Blues,
Motorama,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Index,
Stiv Bators,
This Heat,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Soul II Soul,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Public Enemy, Public Enemy, Public Enemy, Public Enemy.
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.