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 Syria and from Philadelphia.
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 1969 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 In Retrospect to the rap 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 Parry Music. All the underground hits.
All Piero Umiliani tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Hardrive record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Marcia Griffiths record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Brand Nubian,
Sonic Youth,
Donny Hathaway,
Lightning Bolt,
The Misunderstood,
Rekid,
Gang Starr,
Gregory Isaacs,
Desert Stars,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Outsiders,
Bob Dylan,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
June of 44,
R.M.O.,
Bill Near,
Sexual Harrassment,
Suicide,
David Axelrod,
Jacques Brel,
Kevin Saunderson,
Roy Ayers,
New Age Steppers,
Cybotron,
Ossler,
The Sonics,
Arab on Radar,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Moss Icon,
The Associates,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Reagan Youth,
Soul II Soul,
Sight & Sound,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Organ,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Arcadia,
The Vogues,
The Happenings,
Chris & Cosey,
Popol Vuh,
The Alarm Clocks,
Sam Rivers,
Gang of Four,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Neon Judgement,
Los Fastidios,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Shuggie Otis,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Warsaw,
Supertramp,
Jerry's Kids,
David Bowie,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Godley & Creme,
Zero Boys,
The Human League, The Human League, The Human League, The Human League.
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.