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 Zimbabwe and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1969 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Manchester.
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 marimba 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 EPMD to the grunge 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 The Victims. All the underground hits.
All Banda Bassotti tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pagans record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a June Days record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Stiv Bators,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Tres Demented,
Subhumans,
James White and The Blacks,
Amon Düül II,
This Heat,
Nirvana,
Deepchord,
Underground Resistance,
Gabor Szabo,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Harry Pussy,
Leonard Cohen,
Brass Construction,
The Doobie Brothers,
Vladislav Delay,
The Young Rascals,
Arthur Verocai,
Neu!,
Pulsallama,
One Last Wish,
Technova,
H. Thieme,
Skarface,
Roy Ayers,
Simply Red,
Morten Harket,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Parry Music,
The United States of America,
Make Up,
Todd Rundgren,
Qualms,
The Neon Judgement,
Drexciya,
Fat Boys,
Bizarre Inc.,
Sällskapet,
The Victims,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Cymande,
The Fuzztones,
David Axelrod,
Y Pants,
The Kinks,
Alphaville,
Index,
Aural Exciters,
Yellowson,
Easy Going,
K-Klass,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Velvet Underground,
The Busters,
Interpol,
Unrelated Segments,
The Selecter,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Jeru the Damaja,
Bob Dylan,
Bluetip,
The Dave Clark Five, The Dave Clark Five, The Dave Clark Five, The Dave Clark Five.
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.