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 Malaysia and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Halifax.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 marimba 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 Negative Approach to the crunk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Nico. All the underground hits.
All The Zeros tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Symarip record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Normal record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kurtis Blow,
Alton Ellis,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Pere Ubu,
The Sound,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Birthday Party,
Rekid,
Byron Stingily,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Deepchord,
Gang Gang Dance,
Oneida,
Mantronix,
Shuggie Otis,
Gichy Dan,
FM Einheit,
A Flock of Seagulls,
John Foxx,
Camberwell Now,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Mad Mike,
Main Source,
Skarface,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Basic Channel,
The Human League,
Black Pus,
Slick Rick,
Bobby Sherman,
Eddi Front,
The Fall,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Quantec,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Hashim,
Unwound,
Intrusion,
Jesper Dahlback,
Lebanon Hanover,
Fatback Band,
Idris Muhammad,
The Alarm Clocks,
The Velvet Underground,
Danielle Patucci,
Deadbeat,
The Seeds,
Panda Bear,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
The Moleskins,
Graham Central Station,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Big Daddy Kane,
Scott Walker,
Prince Buster,
Severed Heads,
Quadrant,
Lower 48,
Drive Like Jehu,
Grauzone,
Swell Maps, Swell Maps, Swell Maps, Swell Maps.
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.