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 Cuba and from Mexico City.
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 1961 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 sitar 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 Roger Hodgson to the crunk 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 Sad Lovers and Giants. All the underground hits.
All Ituana tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Niagra record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Newcleus record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Black Sheep,
Animal Collective,
Scion,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Junior Murvin,
Sam Rivers,
Soulsonic Force,
Boogie Down Productions,
T. Rex,
Guru Guru,
Janne Schatter,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
A Certain Ratio,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Durutti Column,
D'Angelo,
Todd Terry,
Black Pus,
Easy Going,
Piero Umiliani,
Livin' Joy,
Hashim,
Connie Case,
Tubeway Army,
Lindisfarne,
Wasted Youth,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Arthur Verocai,
Gabor Szabo,
Danielle Patucci,
Anthony Braxton,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Sandy B,
Symarip,
The Techniques,
The Slackers,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Velvet Underground,
Pantytec,
Delon & Dalcan,
Wire,
The Searchers,
Brick,
Althea and Donna,
Rekid,
Negative Approach,
The Residents,
Essential Logic,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Doobie Brothers,
Reagan Youth,
Avey Tare,
The Stooges,
Rufus Thomas,
EPMD,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Warsaw,
Chris Corsano,
Sound Behaviour,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane, Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane, Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane, Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane.
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.