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 Albania and from Seoul.
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 1967 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Fela Kuti to the disco kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Altered Images. All the underground hits.
All Liliput tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pulsallama 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cluster record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Crash Course in Science,
Pharoah Sanders,
Tim Buckley,
The Monks,
Man Eating Sloth,
ABC,
Soul II Soul,
Khruangbin,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Patti Smith,
The Walker Brothers,
Bootsy Collins,
Alton Ellis,
Avey Tare,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Althea and Donna,
Fatback Band,
Toni Rubio,
Section 25,
Stereo Dub,
The Cramps,
Heaven 17,
The Doors,
Joe Finger,
Fort Wilson Riot,
The Smiths,
The Techniques,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Gories,
The Music Machine,
Brass Construction,
Das Ding,
Radiohead,
Prince Buster,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Byron Stingily,
Amon Düül II,
The Grass Roots,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Wolf Eyes,
Pole,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Sister Nancy,
Groovy Waters,
Ronnie Foster,
Fela Kuti,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Mission of Burma,
The Wake,
Sun Ra,
The Moleskins,
June Days,
Index,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Gang of Four,
David Axelrod,
Gichy Dan,
Magma,
Rod Modell, Rod Modell, Rod Modell, Rod Modell.
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.