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 Iran and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1968 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and London.
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 spring reverb 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 Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines to the punk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Unrelated Segments. All the underground hits.
All Intrusion tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 an oboe and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Mojo Men record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
ABC,
The Walker Brothers,
In Retrospect,
OOIOO,
Cybotron,
Stiv Bators,
Duran Duran,
Hashim,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Ten City,
Soul Sonic Force,
Terry Callier,
Alison Limerick,
Althea and Donna,
Magma,
Scan 7,
June of 44,
Bill Near,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
David McCallum,
Nas,
Icehouse,
Shuggie Otis,
Sixth Finger,
Junior Murvin,
Joy Division,
Aswad,
Arab on Radar,
Mission of Burma,
Ornette Coleman,
Rapeman,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Piero Umiliani,
Sparks,
Japan,
The Buckinghams,
Matthew Halsall,
Janne Schatter,
Amon Düül II,
The Offenders,
The Pretty Things,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Doobie Brothers,
Gichy Dan,
Shoche,
Sonic Youth,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Gang of Four,
Cheater Slicks,
Nirvana,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Albert Ayler,
Brand Nubian,
ABBA,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Mojo Men,
MDC,
Wings,
Parry Music,
Gregory Isaacs,
X-Ray Spex,
Skriet,
Y Pants, Y Pants, Y Pants, Y Pants.
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.