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 Nigeria and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1965 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 güiro 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 Ponytail to the dance kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Matthew Bourne. All the underground hits.
All Loose Ends tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fad Gadget record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 an organ and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Skriet record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
John Foxx,
The Gap Band,
Eurythmics,
Aaron Thompson,
Monks,
Subhumans,
The Evens,
Rotary Connection,
Parry Music,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Kerrie Biddell,
CMW,
Lalann,
Liliput,
Roxy Music,
Jerry's Kids,
Babytalk,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Nick Fraelich,
Can,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Cheater Slicks,
Sällskapet,
Jandek,
Spoonie Gee,
Tommy Roe,
T. Rex,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Jeff Mills,
Patti Smith,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Seeds,
X-102,
Mars,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Stetsasonic,
Oblivians,
Eric Dolphy,
Swell Maps,
The Standells,
Byron Stingily,
Blake Baxter,
Roy Ayers,
Pussy Galore,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Tomorrow,
Todd Rundgren,
Tears for Fears,
Johnny Osbourne,
PIL,
The Cure,
Nik Kershaw,
The Walker Brothers,
Surgeon,
Kevin Saunderson,
Rapeman,
Nirvana,
The Wake,
Lee Hazlewood,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Soulsonic Force,
Fela Kuti, Fela Kuti, Fela Kuti, Fela Kuti.
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.