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 Peru and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1963 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 The Pop Group to the grime kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Five Americans. All the underground hits.
All June of 44 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Swans 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Zero Boys record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Alarm Clocks,
The Black Dice,
Matthew Bourne,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Deakin,
Ronan,
Mission of Burma,
Moebius,
Icehouse,
Kaleidoscope,
Delta 5,
The Victims,
Bluetip,
Janne Schatter,
Gichy Dan,
E-Dancer,
Byron Stingily,
Grauzone,
AZ,
The Fall,
The American Breed,
The Fire Engines,
Stereo Dub,
The Offenders,
Fad Gadget,
John Holt,
Soft Machine,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Jacques Brel,
Brass Construction,
Kerrie Biddell,
Barbara Tucker,
Chris & Cosey,
Dual Sessions,
Angry Samoans,
K-Klass,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Divine Comedy,
The Busters,
Crispian St. Peters,
Lalo Schifrin,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Accadde A,
Erasure,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Residents,
LL Cool J,
Chris Corsano,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Depeche Mode,
Pantaleimon,
ABBA,
Lindisfarne,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Doors,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Deepchord,
Jandek,
Matthew Halsall,
Lalann,
Little Man, Little Man, Little Man, Little Man.
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.