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 Iceland and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Ponytail to the rock kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Lindisfarne. All the underground hits.
All Monks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Cosmic Jokers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Leonard Cohen record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Modern Lovers,
Pole,
Soulsonic Force,
Byron Stingily,
Niagra,
The Detroit Cobras,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
X-102,
Tres Demented,
Rod Modell,
Sonic Youth,
Mandrill,
Steve Hackett,
Bill Near,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Knickerbockers,
Ash Ra Tempel,
In Retrospect,
Letta Mbulu,
The Sisters of Mercy,
KRS-One,
Laurel Aitken,
Glenn Branca,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Names,
Make Up,
The Misunderstood,
The Birthday Party,
Public Enemy,
Todd Terry,
Gang Gang Dance,
John Lydon,
Lyres,
Newcleus,
Visage,
Pantaleimon,
Morten Harket,
Bootsy Collins,
Second Layer,
Guru Guru,
Hoover,
Blancmange,
Leonard Cohen,
Soul II Soul,
Main Source,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Bill Wells,
Idris Muhammad,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Judy Mowatt,
Ronnie Foster,
Jeff Mills,
Ultravox,
Half Japanese,
cv313,
Cymande,
The Red Krayola,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Bobby Womack,
Mission of Burma,
Young Marble Giants, Young Marble Giants, Young Marble Giants, Young Marble Giants.
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.