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 London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1961 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 oboe 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 The J.B.'s to the grime kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Nico. All the underground hits.
All The Monks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every MDC record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Guru Guru record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sam Rivers,
Agitation Free,
EPMD,
Idris Muhammad,
John Cale,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Joyce Sims,
Icehouse,
Gang of Four,
Infiniti,
DNA,
T. Rex,
Loose Ends,
Mo-Dettes,
China Crisis,
Roy Ayers,
Monks,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Procol Harum,
Young Marble Giants,
The Golliwogs,
Girls At Our Best!,
Jacques Brel,
Judy Mowatt,
Hashim,
Jeff Mills,
Section 25,
Ultra Naté,
The Electric Prunes,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The Pretty Things,
Essential Logic,
Lou Christie,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Zeros,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Offenders,
Fatback Band,
Kayak,
The Walker Brothers,
The Vogues,
Amazonics,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Pole,
Talk Talk,
The United States of America,
Letta Mbulu,
Bauhaus,
Matthew Bourne,
Warren Ellis,
The Cure,
Janne Schatter,
Aloha Tigers,
Prince Buster,
Franke,
Swell Maps,
PIL,
Schoolly D,
Average White Band,
Skriet,
Davy DMX,
Can,
Nirvana,
Duran Duran, Duran Duran, Duran Duran, Duran Duran.
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.