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 Georgia and from Stockholm.
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 1962 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 guitar 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 Model 500 to the crunk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Black Sheep. All the underground hits.
All Graham Central Station tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eden Ahbez 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Fuzztones record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Howard Jones,
the Swans,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Modern Lovers,
Sun Ra,
Minor Threat,
The Five Americans,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Cal Tjader,
Depeche Mode,
La Düsseldorf,
The Offenders,
Marcia Griffiths,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Ice-T,
Derrick May,
Rosa Yemen,
Pulsallama,
Lindisfarne,
Underground Resistance,
The Human League,
Skarface,
The Beau Brummels,
The Sound,
Make Up,
Andrew Hill,
Flash Fearless,
CMW,
Slick Rick,
Ituana,
Alton Ellis,
The Toasters,
Gil Scott Heron,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Aural Exciters,
The Moody Blues,
Funkadelic,
Deakin,
Ten City,
Kas Product,
The Slits,
Ultra Naté,
Y Pants,
The Blues Magoos,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Supertramp,
Leonard Cohen,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Fatback Band,
Vainqueur,
Eli Mardock,
Funky Four + One,
D'Angelo,
Pere Ubu,
Flamin' Groovies,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Pierre Henry,
Reagan Youth,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud, Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud, Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud, Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud.
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.