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 Israel and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1963 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 DNA to the jazz 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 Bauhaus. All the underground hits.
All Notorious Big And Bone Thugs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 rhodes and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Deepchord record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Siglo XX,
Niagra,
Kool Moe Dee,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Stereo Dub,
Anakelly,
Alice Coltrane,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Absolute Body Control,
The Stooges,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Judy Mowatt,
The Doors,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Accadde A,
Carl Craig,
The Gladiators,
Fat Boys,
Rotary Connection,
Agitation Free,
Susan Cadogan,
The Golliwogs,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Fall,
Bush Tetras,
Depeche Mode,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Detroit Cobras,
Blossom Toes,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Zero Boys,
Smog,
Cybotron,
Funkadelic,
Oblivians,
the Association,
kango's stein massive,
Rakim,
Erykah Badu,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The Invisible,
Dark Day,
Yaz,
Howard Jones,
Bronski Beat,
Crime,
the Sonics,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Mary Jane Girls,
AZ,
Franke,
The Electric Prunes,
Gichy Dan,
ABBA,
Skaos,
New Age Steppers,
Bill Wells,
The Offenders,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Radiohead,
Scott Walker,
Sex Pistols, Sex Pistols, Sex Pistols, Sex Pistols.
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.