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 Dominica and from Jakarta.
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 1967 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Rotary Connection to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Von Mondo. All the underground hits.
All Can tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Avey Tare 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lee Hazlewood record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Motions,
Guru Guru,
Lalo Schifrin,
Eden Ahbez,
Gichy Dan,
Desert Stars,
Michelle Simonal,
Funky Four + One,
Amon Düül,
Gabor Szabo,
Skarface,
F. McDonald,
The Dave Clark Five,
Peter & Gordon,
Deakin,
Scott Walker,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Lebanon Hanover,
MDC,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Nick Fraelich,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Beau Brummels,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Con Funk Shun,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Gang Green,
June of 44,
Gerry Rafferty,
The United States of America,
The Blackbyrds,
Kayak,
Thompson Twins,
Ronnie Foster,
Dead Boys,
Aaron Thompson,
One Last Wish,
Animal Collective,
Talk Talk,
Idris Muhammad,
Althea and Donna,
Piero Umiliani,
Adolescents,
The Slackers,
Infiniti,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Easy Going,
The New Christs,
Parry Music,
Quando Quango,
Marcia Griffiths,
Nik Kershaw,
The Searchers,
Flash Fearless,
The Gap Band,
Malaria!,
Eurythmics,
The Fuzztones,
Kerri Chandler,
Simply Red,
Crooked Eye,
Arcadia, Arcadia, Arcadia, Arcadia.
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.