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 Bosnia Herzegovina and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1962 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Toronto.
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 Neu! practice in a loft in Düsseldorf.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Harpers Bizarre to the rock 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 Justin Hinds & The Dominoes. All the underground hits.
All Cybotron tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Zapp record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 an oboe and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Blancmange record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Fluxion,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Raincoats,
Al Stewart,
Carl Craig,
Marmalade,
Soul Sonic Force,
Rakim,
Jimmy McGriff,
Loose Ends,
Barbara Tucker,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Nation of Ulysses,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Soulsonic Force,
Kenny Larkin,
The Zeros,
The Motions,
Davy DMX,
Adolescents,
Cameo,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Vladislav Delay,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Sonic Youth,
Technova,
Jawbox,
Jandek,
Soul II Soul,
Crash Course in Science,
Main Source,
Blossom Toes,
The Skatalites,
The Monochrome Set,
The Victims,
The Velvet Underground,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Nils Olav,
Prince Buster,
Pole,
Grey Daturas,
the Swans,
Talk Talk,
Y Pants,
Todd Rundgren,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Flash Fearless,
Toni Rubio,
The Cramps,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
kango's stein massive,
Joyce Sims,
The Shadows of Knight,
Robert Görl,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Television Personalities,
Model 500,
Guru Guru,
Aswad,
Crime,
Scott Walker,
Radiohead, Radiohead, Radiohead, Radiohead.
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.