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 Antigua and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Pole to the disco kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 The Moody Blues. All the underground hits.
All Soul II Soul tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scratch Acid record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Negative Approach record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Flash Fearless,
Eden Ahbez,
Neil Young,
Kerri Chandler,
Darondo,
FM Einheit,
Minutemen,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Unrelated Segments,
Loose Ends,
The Shadows of Knight,
Matthew Bourne,
JFA,
The Black Dice,
Colin Newman,
Cluster,
Vainqueur,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Rosa Yemen,
The Count Five,
Joe Smooth,
Index,
Visage,
Scion,
Ronan,
Todd Rundgren,
The Velvet Underground,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Half Japanese,
48th St. Collective,
Scientists,
Roger Hodgson,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Roxette,
Funkadelic,
Glambeats Corp.,
Nation of Ulysses,
Derrick Morgan,
the Bar-Kays,
Spandau Ballet,
The Seeds,
Fluxion,
Mr. Review,
Sight & Sound,
Avey Tare,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Crime,
OOIOO,
Michelle Simonal,
Anakelly,
DJ Style,
Q65,
Tomorrow,
Throbbing Gristle,
Gang of Four,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
the Normal,
The Five Americans,
Interpol,
Barrington Levy,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Associates, The Associates, The Associates, The Associates.
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.