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 Portugal and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 harpsichord 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 Major Organ And The Adding Machine to the electroclash 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 Scott Walker + Sunn O))). All the underground hits.
All N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Roxy Music record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Absolute Body Control record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dave Gahan,
Maurizio,
Tears for Fears,
The Residents,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Blossom Toes,
ABBA,
Sun Ra,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Tres Demented,
H. Thieme,
Yazoo,
Intrusion,
Reagan Youth,
Kas Product,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Amazonics,
The Stooges,
Desert Stars,
Sugar Minott,
Harpers Bizarre,
Duran Duran,
Accadde A,
The Last Poets,
Agent Orange,
The Moleskins,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Idris Muhammad,
Deakin,
Laurel Aitken,
Andrew Hill,
Jeru the Damaja,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Durutti Column,
Letta Mbulu,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Fuzztones,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Stereo Dub,
the Sonics,
Whodini,
Talk Talk,
Black Moon,
Yaz,
The Martian,
The Raincoats,
Pulsallama,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Delon & Dalcan,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Marshall Jefferson,
Joe Smooth,
Alison Limerick,
Mars,
Section 25,
The Vogues,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Dawn Penn,
June Days,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
the Fania All-Stars, the Fania All-Stars, the Fania All-Stars, the Fania All-Stars.
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.