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 Maldives and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1966 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Shanghai.
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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Terrestrial Tones to the disco 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 Country Teasers. All the underground hits.
All 10cc tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nas 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cecil Taylor record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kurtis Blow,
Vladislav Delay,
John Coltrane,
Siglo XX,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
K-Klass,
Nils Olav,
David Axelrod,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Erykah Badu,
Young Marble Giants,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Arcadia,
Wire,
The Fall,
Lower 48,
The Dead C,
JFA,
Goldenarms,
Tres Demented,
Public Enemy,
Josef K,
Maleditus Sound,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
T. Rex,
Niagra,
Kool Moe Dee,
Radiopuhelimet,
Fad Gadget,
Gang Starr,
Danielle Patucci,
The Sonics,
Amon Düül II,
Reagan Youth,
Piero Umiliani,
The Electric Prunes,
Interpol,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Leonard Cohen,
The Fortunes,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Thompson Twins,
Boogie Down Productions,
Darondo,
Joey Negro,
Minutemen,
The Black Dice,
Black Moon,
Pharoah Sanders,
Rites of Spring,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
the Bar-Kays,
Frankie Knuckles,
Von Mondo,
The Walker Brothers,
Davy DMX,
Popol Vuh, Popol Vuh, Popol Vuh, Popol Vuh.
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.