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 Brunei and from Toronto.
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 1966 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 snare 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 Scientists to the disco kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Bobbi Humphrey. All the underground hits.
All Amon Düül tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Techniques 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a David Axelrod record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Basic Channel,
Connie Case,
Cheater Slicks,
Harpers Bizarre,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Icehouse,
Rosa Yemen,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Pierre Henry,
The American Breed,
Stiv Bators,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Sarah Menescal,
Amon Düül II,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Essential Logic,
Alice Coltrane,
Shuggie Otis,
Das Ding,
The Offenders,
The Raincoats,
Sixth Finger,
Metal Thangz,
The Vogues,
Bluetip,
Japan,
Darondo,
Black Flag,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Eden Ahbez,
Shoche,
Mark Hollis,
Johnny Clarke,
Donny Hathaway,
Vladislav Delay,
Royal Trux,
Ken Boothe,
Cecil Taylor,
China Crisis,
Scratch Acid,
cv313,
The Associates,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Cybotron,
Charles Mingus,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Swans,
Panda Bear,
The Divine Comedy,
The Litter,
Scott Walker,
Nation of Ulysses,
Kool Moe Dee,
Sun City Girls,
Sister Nancy,
The Monks,
Crispian St. Peters,
Moss Icon,
Amon Düül,
Tom Boy,
Easy Going, Easy Going, Easy Going, Easy Going.
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.