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 Uruguay and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 Minny Pops to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Negative Approach. All the underground hits.
All Qualms tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cybotron record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jimmy McGriff record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Fugazi,
Gil Scott Heron,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Radiohead,
La Düsseldorf,
Tomorrow,
Glambeats Corp.,
Simply Red,
Dennis Brown,
Lee Hazlewood,
Skaos,
The Walker Brothers,
Lower 48,
Bill Wells,
Alphaville,
Bang On A Can,
Todd Terry,
Symarip,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Pylon,
Bauhaus,
The Alarm Clocks,
The Seeds,
Robert Hood,
Rapeman,
Rod Modell,
Echospace,
The Slackers,
Accadde A,
Sällskapet,
The Smoke,
The Music Machine,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Gories,
Supertramp,
Monolake,
Oblivians,
8 Eyed Spy,
Franke,
Slave,
Byron Stingily,
Junior Murvin,
Ten City,
The Mojo Men,
Nation of Ulysses,
Quantec,
Frankie Knuckles,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Alison Limerick,
Drive Like Jehu,
Al Stewart,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
The Last Poets,
the Fania All-Stars,
K-Klass,
Visage,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Schoolly D,
Yusef Lateef, Yusef Lateef, Yusef Lateef, Yusef Lateef.
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.