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 Bhutan and from Edmonton.
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 1961 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines to the dance 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 Sight & Sound. All the underground hits.
All Yusef Lateef tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bronski Beat 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kevin Saunderson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Main Source,
Mark Hollis,
Derrick May,
Ultra Naté,
Lungfish,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Scott Walker,
Pussy Galore,
Max Romeo,
X-101,
Scratch Acid,
The Skatalites,
Television,
Metal Thangz,
Minny Pops,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
U.S. Maple,
The New Christs,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Minor Threat,
David McCallum,
Magazine,
The Misunderstood,
The Cramps,
Lee Hazlewood,
Harmonia,
Al Stewart,
This Heat,
Moby Grape,
Excepter,
Monolake,
The Pretty Things,
the Fania All-Stars,
the Slits,
The Knickerbockers,
Motorama,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Mantronix,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Kevin Saunderson,
the Normal,
Skarface,
the Bar-Kays,
Clear Light,
D'Angelo,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Quantec,
the Swans,
Gang Green,
Eden Ahbez,
OOIOO,
Gang Gang Dance,
Surgeon,
Ornette Coleman,
Glenn Branca,
Suicide,
Little Man,
The Walker Brothers,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Brick,
Talk Talk,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Slick Rick,
La Düsseldorf, La Düsseldorf, La Düsseldorf, La Düsseldorf.
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.