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 San Marino and from Jakarta.
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 1967 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 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 Minny Pops 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 Lyres. All the underground hits.
All Outsiders tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ultra Naté record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 a guitar and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rhythm & Sound record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ponytail,
The Knickerbockers,
Desert Stars,
Arthur Verocai,
The Associates,
L. Decosne,
Soft Cell,
Sonny Sharrock,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Barclay James Harvest,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Cal Tjader,
Hasil Adkins,
Soul Sonic Force,
Rhythm & Sound,
Jandek,
Marshall Jefferson,
Boogie Down Productions,
Sam Rivers,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Tremeloes,
Throbbing Gristle,
Terry Callier,
the Germs,
Ralphi Rosario,
Warren Ellis,
The Dirtbombs,
The Toasters,
The Detroit Cobras,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Max Romeo,
Country Teasers,
Radiohead,
The Barracudas,
Yusef Lateef,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Whodini,
Eric B and Rakim,
Skriet,
Intrusion,
Silicon Teens,
Half Japanese,
Sound Behaviour,
Khruangbin,
Jeff Lynne,
Flamin' Groovies,
This Heat,
The Residents,
Gong,
Girls At Our Best!,
Hashim,
Altered Images,
Kayak,
Average White Band,
Negative Approach,
Roxy Music,
Ronan,
Audionom,
Crash Course in Science,
The Golliwogs,
MC5,
Rekid,
Interpol,
the Association, the Association, the Association, the Association.
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.