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 Finland and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 rhodes 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 Goldenarms to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 The Cowsills. All the underground hits.
All The Gun Club tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Donny Hathaway 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Doors record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Technova,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Remains,
Piero Umiliani,
Tim Buckley,
Pere Ubu,
Quando Quango,
a-ha,
Sound Behaviour,
David McCallum,
Joy Division,
The Moody Blues,
Procol Harum,
Brothers Johnson,
The Gories,
D'Angelo,
Barclay James Harvest,
June of 44,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Sam Rivers,
The Kinks,
AZ,
The Dave Clark Five,
Dave Gahan,
The Young Rascals,
Inner City,
Alton Ellis,
Aural Exciters,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Fall,
New Order,
The Dirtbombs,
Soul Sonic Force,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Marmalade,
Mary Jane Girls,
Todd Terry,
Saccharine Trust,
Minutemen,
Connie Case,
Max Romeo,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Skaos,
June Days,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Chrome,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Eric B and Rakim,
Fugazi,
Yazoo,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Modern Lovers,
Pet Shop Boys,
Essential Logic,
Amon Düül,
The Wake,
Peter and Kerry,
Blossom Toes,
The Stooges, The Stooges, The Stooges, The Stooges.
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.