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 Malta and from Tokyo.
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 1968 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 funk 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 48th St. Collective. All the underground hits.
All The Electric Prunes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Bar-Kays 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 a clarinet and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Idris Muhammad record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Bauhaus,
The Golliwogs,
Pole,
H. Thieme,
Lucky Dragons,
The Blackbyrds,
the Swans,
Tomorrow,
Neu!,
Loose Ends,
Grey Daturas,
Bootsy Collins,
the Association,
Oneida,
The Techniques,
Average White Band,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Popol Vuh,
JFA,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Cybotron,
The Fall,
John Foxx,
Kool Moe Dee,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Hot Snakes,
Accadde A,
Pulsallama,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Grauzone,
Altered Images,
Sarah Menescal,
Neil Young,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Fluxion,
Soft Cell,
Jacob Miller,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
U.S. Maple,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Tropical Tobacco,
Camberwell Now,
Howard Jones,
Mars,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Fad Gadget,
Fear,
Dual Sessions,
Hardrive,
The Move,
K-Klass,
Tom Boy,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Ultravox,
Lee Hazlewood,
Brothers Johnson,
Flash Fearless,
Matthew Bourne,
James White and The Blacks,
Robert Hood, Robert Hood, Robert Hood, Robert Hood.
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.