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 Latvia and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1968 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Siouxsie and the Banshees to the grime 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 The Fuzztones. All the underground hits.
All Fad Gadget tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joey Negro record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Toasters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
ABBA,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Gabor Szabo,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Y Pants,
Massinfluence,
Flash Fearless,
Desert Stars,
Nils Olav,
Half Japanese,
Marc Almond,
Josef K,
Robert Görl,
The Index,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Rosa Yemen,
Blossom Toes,
Echospace,
Crispy Ambulance,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Barrington Levy,
The Kinks,
It's A Beautiful Day,
John Holt,
The Techniques,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Monochrome Set,
Jeff Lynne,
Ken Boothe,
Dave Gahan,
Accadde A,
Nirvana,
Newcleus,
Talk Talk,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Bill Near,
Sexual Harrassment,
Little Man,
Lalann,
Ultravox,
Black Flag,
The Neon Judgement,
Derrick Morgan,
ABC,
Crooked Eye,
Pierre Henry,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Lower 48,
Unwound,
Silicon Teens,
Deepchord,
the Germs,
The Mojo Men,
The Electric Prunes,
New Order,
Surgeon,
a-ha,
Crash Course in Science,
The Fugs,
Andrew Hill,
Fad Gadget,
Radio Birdman, Radio Birdman, Radio Birdman, Radio Birdman.
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.