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 Belgium and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 Doors to the dance kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Au Pairs. All the underground hits.
All Oppenheimer Analysis tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Wolf Eyes record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Skriet record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Fela Kuti,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Agitation Free,
Theoretical Girls,
Lou Reed,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Bronski Beat,
Sandy B,
the Human League,
Technova,
Man Parrish,
The Electric Prunes,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Crooked Eye,
Tropical Tobacco,
Eric Copeland,
The Human League,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Cure,
Ralphi Rosario,
Max Romeo,
Maleditus Sound,
Barrington Levy,
The Durutti Column,
Babytalk,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Gories,
Ten City,
Hasil Adkins,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Joe Finger,
Sonic Youth,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Oneida,
Fear,
The Happenings,
Howard Jones,
Soul Sonic Force,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Harmonia,
Mantronix,
The Busters,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Dawn Penn,
The Martian,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Arcadia,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Sound Behaviour,
Negative Approach,
Nick Fraelich,
Country Teasers,
Prince Buster,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Warsaw,
the Normal,
The Selecter,
Pulsallama, Pulsallama, Pulsallama, Pulsallama.
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.