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 Switzerland and from Edmonton.
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 1962 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 Ossler to the techno kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Minny Pops. All the underground hits.
All Selector Dub Narcotic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Drive Like Jehu record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 808 and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Fall record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Toni Rubio,
The Buckinghams,
Slick Rick,
Wings,
Hasil Adkins,
The Gories,
Pantytec,
A Certain Ratio,
Nik Kershaw,
Junior Murvin,
Scrapy,
Deakin,
Drive Like Jehu,
Bluetip,
In Retrospect,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Bobby Sherman,
Quando Quango,
Funky Four + One,
John Holt,
Sandy B,
Brass Construction,
R.M.O.,
Lalo Schifrin,
Morten Harket,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
John Foxx,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Newcleus,
Shoche,
Agent Orange,
Kerri Chandler,
Archie Shepp,
Maleditus Sound,
Scott Walker,
The Music Machine,
Hot Snakes,
H. Thieme,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
The Raincoats,
Wire,
Royal Trux,
Jeff Lynne,
The Wake,
Scientists,
Steve Hackett,
Carl Craig,
Silicon Teens,
Bobby Womack,
Black Bananas,
Anthony Braxton,
The Skatalites,
Albert Ayler,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Judy Mowatt,
10cc,
The Invisible,
The Vogues,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Scion,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam.
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.