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 Israel and from Johannesburg.
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 1965 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Spokane.
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 guitar 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 Larry & the Blue Notes to the funk 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 Y Pants. All the underground hits.
All Arthur Verocai tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Japan 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Andrew Hill record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Essential Logic,
Monolake,
Black Pus,
Hashim,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Curtis Mayfield,
Wally Richardson,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Crash Course in Science,
Malaria!,
Pharoah Sanders,
Kas Product,
Amon Düül II,
Crooked Eye,
Talk Talk,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Dave Gahan,
The Index,
The Stooges,
China Crisis,
Marcia Griffiths,
Siglo XX,
Tropical Tobacco,
Au Pairs,
Quantec,
Lou Christie,
Shuggie Otis,
Tim Buckley,
Technova,
David Bowie,
Marmalade,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Maurizio,
10cc,
Scrapy,
Scion,
The Blackbyrds,
Derrick Morgan,
Cal Tjader,
The Seeds,
Girls At Our Best!,
Steve Hackett,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Minor Threat,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Faraquet,
Marshall Jefferson,
Marvin Gaye,
Erasure,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Slave,
Lower 48,
Boz Scaggs,
Marine Girls,
The Doors,
Danielle Patucci,
Amon Düül,
Sixth Finger,
The Walker Brothers,
the Germs,
Rotary Connection,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Barclay James Harvest, Barclay James Harvest, Barclay James Harvest, Barclay James Harvest.
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.