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 Taiwan and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1963 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 synthesizer 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 10cc to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Eric Dolphy. All the underground hits.
All Kerri Chandler tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Minor Threat 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a David McCallum record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Yazoo,
The Techniques,
Sugar Minott,
Bluetip,
Nico,
Michelle Simonal,
T.S.O.L.,
Rakim,
Davy DMX,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Gerry Rafferty,
Juan Atkins,
Qualms,
Arthur Verocai,
The Tremeloes,
Soft Cell,
Yusef Lateef,
Schoolly D,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Maurizio,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Tom Boy,
The Wake,
Fluxion,
David McCallum,
Sexual Harrassment,
Roxy Music,
Scrapy,
The Vogues,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Quadrant,
Chrome,
Theoretical Girls,
Brass Construction,
The Residents,
The J.B.'s,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Albert Ayler,
The Red Krayola,
The Detroit Cobras,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
A Certain Ratio,
Cybotron,
Piero Umiliani,
Rites of Spring,
Ultra Naté,
The Cramps,
CMW,
Gong,
Tommy Roe,
Trumans Water,
Judy Mowatt,
B.T. Express,
Altered Images,
This Heat,
the Sonics,
Duran Duran,
Agitation Free,
Prince Buster,
Blancmange,
Bobby Sherman,
K-Klass, K-Klass, K-Klass, K-Klass.
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.