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 Venezuela and from Jakarta.
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 1967 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 güiro 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 The Mighty Diamonds to the rock kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Shoche. All the underground hits.
All The Pretty Things tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Trumans Water record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 chamberlin and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Sisters of Mercy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Country Joe & The Fish,
Ornette Coleman,
Agitation Free,
Pierre Henry,
Bizarre Inc.,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Royal Trux,
Tubeway Army,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Curtis Mayfield,
Section 25,
The Sound,
Drexciya,
Boogie Down Productions,
Monolake,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Smiths,
John Foxx,
The Fortunes,
Anthony Braxton,
Rapeman,
The Kinks,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
World's Most,
Grauzone,
The Buckinghams,
The Monks,
Boredoms,
Roger Hodgson,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Alison Limerick,
Isaac Hayes,
Sister Nancy,
Camouflage,
Joy Division,
Jimmy McGriff,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Amazonics,
Black Bananas,
Gastr Del Sol,
Interpol,
Bobby Womack,
Matthew Bourne,
Grandmaster Flash,
China Crisis,
the Human League,
The Searchers,
Stockholm Monsters,
the Soft Cell,
Radio Birdman,
Max Romeo,
Angry Samoans,
Silicon Teens,
Moby Grape,
The Sonics,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Move,
Unwound,
Vainqueur,
The Invisible, The Invisible, The Invisible, The Invisible.
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.