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 Armenia and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1962 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 Donald Fagen 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 Lou Reed & John Cale to the grime kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Faraquet. All the underground hits.
All Electric Light Orchestra tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Au Pairs 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Godley & Creme record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Mo-Dettes,
Shuggie Otis,
Alice Coltrane,
Bang On A Can,
LL Cool J,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Maleditus Sound,
Bad Manners,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
10cc,
Tres Demented,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Robert Görl,
Lindisfarne,
The Techniques,
Scrapy,
Altered Images,
Maurizio,
the Bar-Kays,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Accadde A,
The Litter,
The Skatalites,
MDC,
June Days,
Cal Tjader,
Tomorrow,
Organ,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Spoonie Gee,
Isaac Hayes,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Zapp,
Visage,
Cymande,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Porter Ricks,
Surgeon,
Jacob Miller,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Smoke,
Chris & Cosey,
The Gladiators,
Quantec,
Curtis Mayfield,
Gregory Isaacs,
David McCallum,
Alton Ellis,
Ken Boothe,
Scion,
DNA,
Khruangbin,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Human League,
Procol Harum,
The American Breed,
Danielle Patucci,
Grey Daturas,
H. Thieme,
Inner City, Inner City, Inner City, Inner City.
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.