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 Botswana and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 Manila and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 synthesizer 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 Black Moon to the grime 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 Talk Talk. All the underground hits.
All Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Wings 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lebanon Hanover record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bizarre Inc.,
Black Bananas,
Delta 5,
Dennis Brown,
The Doors,
Big Daddy Kane,
Minutemen,
Brick,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Beau Brummels,
Godley & Creme,
Sandy B,
Unwound,
Cameo,
Pylon,
The Fall,
Au Pairs,
Khruangbin,
Electric Prunes,
The Gladiators,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Roger Hodgson,
Brothers Johnson,
Sex Pistols,
The Red Krayola,
Sällskapet,
Moss Icon,
Blake Baxter,
Chrome,
Susan Cadogan,
Livin' Joy,
Con Funk Shun,
Babytalk,
Second Layer,
The Blues Magoos,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
June of 44,
Harpers Bizarre,
Cecil Taylor,
Bob Dylan,
China Crisis,
The Five Americans,
Hasil Adkins,
Cheater Slicks,
Derrick May,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Gichy Dan,
Barry Ungar,
The Moody Blues,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Bush Tetras,
Groovy Waters,
PIL,
The Moleskins,
Vainqueur,
Goldenarms,
Nation of Ulysses,
Smog,
Tres Demented,
Radiopuhelimet,
In Retrospect,
LL Cool J,
Rites of Spring,
Eli Mardock, Eli Mardock, Eli Mardock, Eli Mardock.
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.