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 Tonga and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1964 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Johannesburg.
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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Country Joe & The Fish to the disco kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Aswad. All the underground hits.
All Zapp tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pierre Henry record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 a güiro and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Q and Not U record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
New York Dolls,
The Searchers,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Eli Mardock,
Wings,
Matthew Bourne,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Happenings,
Leonard Cohen,
Terry Callier,
Agitation Free,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Standells,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Blackbyrds,
David McCallum,
Avey Tare,
Isaac Hayes,
Slave,
Kenny Larkin,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Morten Harket,
Maleditus Sound,
The Motions,
Blancmange,
The Selecter,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Rosa Yemen,
Glambeats Corp.,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Sexual Harrassment,
PIL,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Marc Almond,
The Flesh Eaters,
Ituana,
Y Pants,
Graham Central Station,
the Bar-Kays,
Jawbox,
The Zeros,
Amon Düül II,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Skatalites,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Nico,
Soulsonic Force,
Shoche,
Mr. Review,
Ronnie Foster,
Yazoo,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Skriet,
Von Mondo,
K-Klass,
Ice-T,
DNA,
The Five Americans,
Ludus, Ludus, Ludus, Ludus.
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.