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 Norway and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Halifax.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Sandy B to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 David Axelrod. All the underground hits.
All Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Alton Ellis record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Althea and Donna record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Human League,
Gastr Del Sol,
Neil Young,
Average White Band,
Patti Smith,
The Grass Roots,
The Mighty Diamonds,
David Axelrod,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Alison Limerick,
MC5,
The Toasters,
The Happenings,
Deakin,
Silicon Teens,
Marmalade,
Derrick Morgan,
Lou Reed,
Davy DMX,
Arthur Verocai,
Slick Rick,
Bronski Beat,
Crash Course in Science,
Mantronix,
R.M.O.,
Sandy B,
Cheater Slicks,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Popol Vuh,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Eli Mardock,
Skaos,
Morten Harket,
Neu!,
Spandau Ballet,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Terrestrial Tones,
Roxy Music,
L. Decosne,
The Gap Band,
The Busters,
The Skatalites,
EPMD,
Dual Sessions,
Toni Rubio,
Marcia Griffiths,
Little Man,
Henry Cow,
The Remains,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
H. Thieme,
Subhumans,
Robert Görl,
Symarip,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Heaven 17,
Eurythmics,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Radiohead,
Barry Ungar,
T.S.O.L.,
Soul Sonic Force,
Ice-T, Ice-T, Ice-T, Ice-T.
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.