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 Tajikistan and from Delhi.
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 1963 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Marc Almond to the grime 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 Harmonia. All the underground hits.
All The Cramps tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sly & The Family Stone record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 synthesizer and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pere Ubu record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Saccharine Trust,
Jimmy McGriff,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Althea and Donna,
Shoche,
Radiohead,
Neil Young,
Lucky Dragons,
The Doors,
MC5,
Bill Near,
Black Sheep,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Todd Rundgren,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Yazoo,
Technova,
Morten Harket,
Alice Coltrane,
Toni Rubio,
Ultravox,
Agent Orange,
Curtis Mayfield,
John Cale,
Gregory Isaacs,
Eli Mardock,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Faust,
Sex Pistols,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Bush Tetras,
Moby Grape,
Au Pairs,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Aswad,
Letta Mbulu,
Pussy Galore,
New Order,
Sugar Minott,
Oneida,
Urselle,
10cc,
Nico,
The Remains,
Mantronix,
Ornette Coleman,
Susan Cadogan,
Erasure,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Crispy Ambulance,
The Blackbyrds,
Public Image Ltd.,
June Days,
Panda Bear,
The Dead C,
Sarah Menescal,
Matthew Halsall,
The Smiths,
Delon & Dalcan,
Amon Düül, Amon Düül, Amon Düül, Amon Düül.
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.