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 Costa Rica and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 Nile Rodgers 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 Gong to the grunge 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 Lebanon Hanover. All the underground hits.
All Animal Collective tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Malaria! 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Youth Brigade record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Peter and Kerry,
Ornette Coleman,
Ultimate Spinach,
Tears for Fears,
Morten Harket,
Intrusion,
Suburban Knight,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Pop Group,
Youth Brigade,
Scan 7,
Television,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Monks,
Fad Gadget,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Leaves,
Depeche Mode,
Newcleus,
Isaac Hayes,
Ken Boothe,
Tres Demented,
Michelle Simonal,
Bob Dylan,
Rakim,
Black Sheep,
Eli Mardock,
Nirvana,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Bill Wells,
Sound Behaviour,
Josef K,
World's Most,
Porter Ricks,
Steve Hackett,
Ice-T,
Boz Scaggs,
Zero Boys,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Chris & Cosey,
Agent Orange,
Gregory Isaacs,
Aural Exciters,
Visage,
Laurel Aitken,
Sun City Girls,
Television Personalities,
Supertramp,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Circle Jerks,
Roger Hodgson,
Chris Corsano,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Piero Umiliani,
Kool Moe Dee,
Johnny Osbourne,
Scientists,
The Modern Lovers,
Joy Division,
The Fuzztones, The Fuzztones, The Fuzztones, The Fuzztones.
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.