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 the UAE and from Mumbai.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Delon & Dalcan to the punk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Subhumans. All the underground hits.
All DJ Style tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lucky Dragons 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Radiohead,
Maleditus Sound,
Television Personalities,
Deadbeat,
Donald Byrd,
Ronnie Foster,
Bronski Beat,
Roxy Music,
Scrapy,
Connie Case,
Pharoah Sanders,
Metal Thangz,
Faust,
Ultra Naté,
The Slackers,
Bang On A Can,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Charles Mingus,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Grandmaster Flash,
Bob Dylan,
Reuben Wilson,
the Bar-Kays,
Neil Young,
The Five Americans,
Leonard Cohen,
Technova,
Kevin Saunderson,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Monolake,
48th St. Collective,
Lucky Dragons,
The Kinks,
New York Dolls,
Marc Almond,
Sam Rivers,
Suicide,
The Toasters,
Stetsasonic,
Heaven 17,
The Black Dice,
Quantec,
The Litter,
Slick Rick,
Joensuu 1685,
Unwound,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Todd Rundgren,
F. McDonald,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Public Image Ltd.,
Henry Cow,
Johnny Clarke,
Wally Richardson,
Crime,
Public Enemy,
The Monochrome Set,
Rites of Spring,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Pussy Galore,
Amon Düül,
Angry Samoans, Angry Samoans, Angry Samoans, Angry Samoans.
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.