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 Uganda and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 David Bowie 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 Organ to the rock 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 a-ha. All the underground hits.
All Neu! tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Oneida record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a It's A Beautiful Day record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Neon Judgement,
Roger Hodgson,
Mandrill,
Glambeats Corp.,
kango's stein massive,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Gastr Del Sol,
Grauzone,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Technova,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Symarip,
Ten City,
Crooked Eye,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
48th St. Collective,
Arcadia,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Michelle Simonal,
Desert Stars,
Yusef Lateef,
Sarah Menescal,
La Düsseldorf,
The Tremeloes,
Terry Callier,
Man Eating Sloth,
Johnny Clarke,
The Young Rascals,
Radiohead,
The Raincoats,
Bob Dylan,
Sparks,
The Monochrome Set,
Pierre Henry,
Ronan,
Scott Walker,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Scan 7,
Black Flag,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Gang Gang Dance,
Lou Reed,
Ludus,
Q and Not U,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Misunderstood,
The Doobie Brothers,
Sam Rivers,
FM Einheit,
Au Pairs,
Ponytail,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Severed Heads,
Glenn Branca,
Tomorrow,
New Age Steppers,
Marmalade,
Sound Behaviour,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Soul II Soul,
Judy Mowatt,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell.
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.