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 Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1969 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Cybotron to the disco kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 a-ha. All the underground hits.
All The Remains tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Wally Richardson 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Marine Girls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
K-Klass,
Metal Thangz,
Supertramp,
Pylon,
Delon & Dalcan,
Interpol,
Kayak,
Aaron Thompson,
Barry Ungar,
Mad Mike,
Public Enemy,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Flipper,
JFA,
Porter Ricks,
Cecil Taylor,
Surgeon,
Davy DMX,
Max Romeo,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Soulsonic Force,
Graham Central Station,
Hashim,
Echospace,
Aswad,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Masters at Work,
Eric B and Rakim,
Trumans Water,
Isaac Hayes,
Jimmy McGriff,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Deadbeat,
Lower 48,
The Busters,
Archie Shepp,
Ponytail,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Unwound,
Steve Hackett,
Eddi Front,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Oneida,
The Searchers,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Lou Reed,
Duran Duran,
Siglo XX,
Wings,
The Misunderstood,
Chrome,
X-Ray Spex,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Wire,
Audionom,
KRS-One,
Scott Walker,
Eden Ahbez,
Black Pus,
John Lydon,
Maurizio,
The Stooges,
Malaria!, Malaria!, Malaria!, Malaria!.
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.