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 Brazil and from Tokyo.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 MDC to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 The Beau Brummels. All the underground hits.
All Mars tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Quadrant record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eric Dolphy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Avey Tare,
The Happenings,
Q and Not U,
Average White Band,
The Modern Lovers,
Scrapy,
Youth Brigade,
Gil Scott Heron,
the Soft Cell,
Masters at Work,
The Five Americans,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Arcadia,
Tres Demented,
Derrick May,
8 Eyed Spy,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
New Age Steppers,
Eli Mardock,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Stetsasonic,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Dave Clark Five,
Sonic Youth,
Pierre Henry,
Deadbeat,
Iggy Pop,
Japan,
Radio Birdman,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Public Enemy,
Yusef Lateef,
Big Daddy Kane,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
UT,
Main Source,
Alice Coltrane,
Kurtis Blow,
Derrick Morgan,
Stockholm Monsters,
Kevin Saunderson,
Lebanon Hanover,
Boz Scaggs,
Deepchord,
Connie Case,
Bob Dylan,
FM Einheit,
Grey Daturas,
Los Fastidios,
Joe Smooth,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Audionom,
Circle Jerks,
The Velvet Underground,
The Fall,
Patti Smith,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Rekid,
The Martian,
Alphaville,
Ten City,
E-Dancer,
The Electric Prunes, The Electric Prunes, The Electric Prunes, The Electric Prunes.
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.