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 Ireland and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1960 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 T.S.O.L. to the punk 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 Rosa Yemen. All the underground hits.
All Minny Pops tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Be Bop Deluxe 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cameo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lower 48,
The Blues Magoos,
Arthur Verocai,
Idris Muhammad,
Saccharine Trust,
The Misunderstood,
CMW,
The Monochrome Set,
Agent Orange,
Ronnie Foster,
Blancmange,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Man Parrish,
Babytalk,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Dead C,
Funkadelic,
Aloha Tigers,
Guru Guru,
Darondo,
Kas Product,
Terry Callier,
Scientists,
Newcleus,
Hashim,
Bad Manners,
Negative Approach,
Hot Snakes,
Jimmy McGriff,
Eddi Front,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Ornette Coleman,
The Associates,
Cluster,
Theoretical Girls,
Nick Fraelich,
the Bar-Kays,
a-ha,
The Fortunes,
Brand Nubian,
Ossler,
Television Personalities,
Unwound,
The Moody Blues,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Wally Richardson,
Peter and Kerry,
DNA,
Alice Coltrane,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Japan,
Soul Sonic Force,
Interpol,
Bobby Womack,
Section 25,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Barry Ungar,
Josef K,
the Fania All-Stars,
Wire,
DJ Sneak, DJ Sneak, DJ Sneak, DJ Sneak.
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.