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 Armenia and from Paris.
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 1966 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 rhodes 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 Quando Quango to the techno 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 Public Enemy. All the underground hits.
All Todd Rundgren tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every ABBA record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Electric Prunes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Mad Mike,
Flash Fearless,
The Cowsills,
The Cramps,
Man Parrish,
Skaos,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The Invisible,
Minny Pops,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Unrelated Segments,
Severed Heads,
Index,
Joensuu 1685,
Agitation Free,
Pole,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Niagra,
Lou Christie,
Neu!,
Barry Ungar,
Traffic Nightmare,
David Bowie,
The Fuzztones,
JFA,
Pussy Galore,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Dave Gahan,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Parry Music,
Bush Tetras,
The Sound,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Jeff Mills,
Dennis Brown,
Laurel Aitken,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Funkadelic,
Pagans,
Guru Guru,
Pierre Henry,
Arab on Radar,
Crispy Ambulance,
Main Source,
Wire,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Don Cherry,
Dawn Penn,
Moebius,
Ronnie Foster,
The Toasters,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Jandek,
The Offenders,
Yazoo,
Max Romeo,
Rekid,
Procol Harum,
Thee Headcoats,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel.
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.