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 Samoa and from Bremen.
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 1964 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 Wally Richardson to the rock 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 Grey Daturas. All the underground hits.
All Wally Richardson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every E-Dancer record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Standells record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Suburban Knight,
New Order,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Siglo XX,
Moss Icon,
Kaleidoscope,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Clear Light,
Roger Hodgson,
The Young Rascals,
Crispian St. Peters,
Pharoah Sanders,
Excepter,
David Axelrod,
Peter & Gordon,
The Evens,
Sexual Harrassment,
Lou Christie,
The Sound,
Loose Ends,
Pantaleimon,
Mary Jane Girls,
FM Einheit,
Tim Buckley,
Urselle,
Banda Bassotti,
Robert Hood,
Lightning Bolt,
Public Image Ltd.,
Matthew Halsall,
Jeff Mills,
Dead Boys,
Cheater Slicks,
Janne Schatter,
Stockholm Monsters,
Brand Nubian,
Agent Orange,
Cecil Taylor,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Rites of Spring,
Electric Prunes,
Barry Ungar,
The Detroit Cobras,
Alton Ellis,
June Days,
U.S. Maple,
Minor Threat,
Donald Byrd,
Sight & Sound,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Hot Snakes,
JFA,
Roy Ayers,
Chrome,
Gabor Szabo,
Infiniti,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Barrington Levy,
The Angels of Light,
Make Up,
Scan 7,
It's A Beautiful Day, It's A Beautiful Day, It's A Beautiful Day, It's A Beautiful Day.
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.