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 Slovakia and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 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 Negative Approach to the rock kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Charles Mingus. All the underground hits.
All Dennis Brown tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dual Sessions 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sister Nancy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Kerri Chandler,
Lucky Dragons,
Scan 7,
Lower 48,
Ludus,
The Real Kids,
Quantec,
Jerry's Kids,
Minor Threat,
The Sonics,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Divine Comedy,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Dennis Brown,
Nik Kershaw,
Au Pairs,
Banda Bassotti,
Robert Görl,
Harry Pussy,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Ultravox,
Mantronix,
The Residents,
Agitation Free,
Amon Düül II,
Soft Machine,
OOIOO,
The Dead C,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
The Smoke,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
David Axelrod,
Peter & Gordon,
Arthur Verocai,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Wasted Youth,
The Velvet Underground,
Arab on Radar,
A Certain Ratio,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Scrapy,
Drive Like Jehu,
Stereo Dub,
Average White Band,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Nils Olav,
Roxy Music,
Toni Rubio,
Flipper,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Make Up,
R.M.O.,
Marshall Jefferson,
Loose Ends,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Mandrill,
Gang Gang Dance,
Mo-Dettes,
Reagan Youth,
New Order,
Moebius, Moebius, Moebius, Moebius.
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.