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 Niger and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1966 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the theremin 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 Bluetip to the techno kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Godley & Creme. All the underground hits.
All Ronan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Associates record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 sitar and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a X-Ray Spex record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Japan,
Rod Modell,
Mad Mike,
ABBA,
Accadde A,
Frankie Knuckles,
Jeff Mills,
Sound Behaviour,
June Days,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Carl Craig,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Easy Going,
Supertramp,
Funkadelic,
The Neon Judgement,
Magazine,
Rekid,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
New York Dolls,
Hashim,
The Moody Blues,
Aaron Thompson,
MC5,
Black Flag,
The Happenings,
The Smoke,
Girls At Our Best!,
Crash Course in Science,
the Swans,
The Cowsills,
Second Layer,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Radiopuhelimet,
Grey Daturas,
Patti Smith,
8 Eyed Spy,
Rakim,
Electric Light Orchestra,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Wake,
David Axelrod,
The Walker Brothers,
U.S. Maple,
Gregory Isaacs,
Heaven 17,
Outsiders,
Porter Ricks,
The Standells,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Moss Icon,
Bluetip,
Lindisfarne,
Fela Kuti,
Joyce Sims,
The Slits,
Joe Finger,
Donny Hathaway,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The United States of America,
Al Stewart,
Scott Walker, Scott Walker, Scott Walker, Scott Walker.
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.