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 Spain and from Tokyo.
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 1966 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud to the techno kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 La Düsseldorf. All the underground hits.
All Agent Orange tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Technova record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The United States of America,
Chrome,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Curtis Mayfield,
New Age Steppers,
The Young Rascals,
Animal Collective,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Reuben Wilson,
Funky Four + One,
Anakelly,
Subhumans,
Stockholm Monsters,
Mandrill,
The Walker Brothers,
The New Christs,
Aloha Tigers,
Chris & Cosey,
The Vogues,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Mars,
The Sound,
Robert Hood,
The Dirtbombs,
The Pop Group,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Brass Construction,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Johnny Clarke,
Junior Murvin,
Con Funk Shun,
Jawbox,
David McCallum,
Fugazi,
Fela Kuti,
Scion,
Depeche Mode,
The Moleskins,
Dave Gahan,
Donald Byrd,
The Victims,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Max Romeo,
Easy Going,
Aural Exciters,
Barry Ungar,
Warsaw,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Organ,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Dave Clark Five,
Ohio Players,
DJ Style,
Joy Division,
Motorama,
Soft Machine,
the Association,
Rufus Thomas,
Eden Ahbez,
Fluxion,
Roy Ayers,
The Fuzztones,
Pharoah Sanders,
Bronski Beat, Bronski Beat, Bronski Beat, Bronski Beat.
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.