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 India and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1961 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 arpeggiator 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 FM Einheit to the jazz 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 Wally Richardson. All the underground hits.
All Scientists tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Grauzone record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 chamberlin and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Quando Quango record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sight & Sound,
Cybotron,
Newcleus,
Jesper Dahlback,
Rod Modell,
Q and Not U,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Underground Resistance,
Icehouse,
Graham Central Station,
Royal Trux,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Stetsasonic,
Eddi Front,
Ronnie Foster,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Jerry Gold Smith,
AZ,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Hasil Adkins,
Subhumans,
Althea and Donna,
Traffic Nightmare,
Aaron Thompson,
Model 500,
The Standells,
James White and The Blacks,
Amon Düül II,
Scott Walker,
Kerrie Biddell,
Average White Band,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
The Trojans,
Groovy Waters,
Ossler,
Alton Ellis,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Jacob Miller,
Crime,
Gregory Isaacs,
Gang Green,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Jawbox,
Shoche,
Lightning Bolt,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Young Rascals,
Nik Kershaw,
Negative Approach,
the Germs,
Susan Cadogan,
Schoolly D,
June of 44,
The Mojo Men,
Public Enemy,
Oblivians,
Parry Music,
Dual Sessions,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Toasters, The Toasters, The Toasters, The Toasters.
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.