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 Taiwan and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1965 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 sitar 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 Ponytail to the disco kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Boz Scaggs. All the underground hits.
All Toni Rubio tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sun City Girls 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a rhodes 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 theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pylon,
Cameo,
David Bowie,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
kango's stein massive,
Grauzone,
Chris & Cosey,
Erykah Badu,
Blossom Toes,
Godley & Creme,
Ultra Naté,
The Durutti Column,
Radio Birdman,
Groovy Waters,
The Young Rascals,
The Fire Engines,
10cc,
Alison Limerick,
Minnie Riperton,
Nico,
Alice Coltrane,
Girls At Our Best!,
Buzzcocks,
The Vogues,
MC5,
Tropical Tobacco,
Ituana,
Circle Jerks,
Nation of Ulysses,
Minny Pops,
The Pretty Things,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Delon & Dalcan,
Matthew Bourne,
World's Most,
Siglo XX,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Vladislav Delay,
Fatback Band,
Jeru the Damaja,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Bobby Byrd,
Nils Olav,
Joe Finger,
Rosa Yemen,
Joy Division,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Johnny Osbourne,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Buckinghams,
David Axelrod,
Ronan,
Connie Case,
Pet Shop Boys,
Pole,
Skriet,
Kool Moe Dee,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
The Electric Prunes,
Tommy Roe,
Flamin' Groovies, Flamin' Groovies, Flamin' Groovies, Flamin' Groovies.
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.