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 Slovenia and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1960 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Harpers Bizarre to the grunge 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 Public Image Ltd.. All the underground hits.
All Robert Wyatt tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every DJ Style record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 sitar and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Audionom record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pole,
Maurizio,
Depeche Mode,
Delon & Dalcan,
Magma,
The Knickerbockers,
Kool Moe Dee,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Oblivians,
Masters at Work,
Circle Jerks,
Anthony Braxton,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Youth Brigade,
Young Marble Giants,
MC5,
Marvin Gaye,
Grauzone,
The Cramps,
The Standells,
Davy DMX,
Aaron Thompson,
The Motions,
Sonic Youth,
Todd Terry,
The Human League,
X-102,
Guru Guru,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Count Five,
Spoonie Gee,
UT,
Animal Collective,
The Selecter,
Robert Wyatt,
Delta 5,
Section 25,
Kerrie Biddell,
Fear,
Throbbing Gristle,
Pantytec,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Cybotron,
Brass Construction,
a-ha,
Johnny Clarke,
Reagan Youth,
Warren Ellis,
Jerry's Kids,
Eric Dolphy,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Detroit Cobras,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Rosa Yemen,
Neu!,
the Association,
Fatback Band,
Radio Birdman,
Gichy Dan,
Bill Wells,
Pet Shop Boys,
A Certain Ratio,
Gastr Del Sol, Gastr Del Sol, Gastr Del Sol, Gastr Del Sol.
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.