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 Switzerland and from Taipei.
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 1967 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Crime to the techno 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 Major Organ And The Adding Machine. All the underground hits.
All MC5 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Dave Clark Five record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Aloha Tigers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ossler,
Hot Snakes,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Joyce Sims,
Pulsallama,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Fuzztones,
Monks,
Altered Images,
AZ,
Tom Boy,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Tommy Roe,
The Smoke,
The Cramps,
Agent Orange,
The Modern Lovers,
The Mummies,
Zero Boys,
Blossom Toes,
H. Thieme,
A Certain Ratio,
Althea and Donna,
Parry Music,
Anthony Braxton,
Joey Negro,
Cybotron,
The Divine Comedy,
The Dead C,
Juan Atkins,
The Knickerbockers,
Eli Mardock,
The Star Department,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Masters at Work,
Nick Fraelich,
Electric Prunes,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Sonic Youth,
Little Man,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Red Krayola,
Vainqueur,
Siglo XX,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Quadrant,
LL Cool J,
Gang Gang Dance,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Adolescents,
The Velvet Underground,
Nik Kershaw,
Make Up,
Stereo Dub,
Second Layer,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Minnie Riperton,
Bush Tetras, Bush Tetras, Bush Tetras, Bush Tetras.
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.