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 Iraq and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 harpsichord 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 Joensuu 1685 to the techno kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Roxy Music. All the underground hits.
All Heaven 17 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Niagra 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Alice Coltrane record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Peter & Gordon,
Scan 7,
Derrick Morgan,
Minor Threat,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Harry Pussy,
Hoover,
The Trojans,
The Mummies,
Theoretical Girls,
Reagan Youth,
Jacques Brel,
Mr. Review,
Slave,
David Axelrod,
Animal Collective,
Alice Coltrane,
Eden Ahbez,
LL Cool J,
Cheater Slicks,
Gang Gang Dance,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Sugar Minott,
Newcleus,
Mark Hollis,
Roger Hodgson,
The Names,
Ohio Players,
Depeche Mode,
Jeff Lynne,
Rosa Yemen,
Letta Mbulu,
E-Dancer,
Jerry's Kids,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Pantaleimon,
Roy Ayers,
Dawn Penn,
These Immortal Souls,
Stetsasonic,
The Happenings,
Frankie Knuckles,
Tubeway Army,
Country Teasers,
Eli Mardock,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
L. Decosne,
Aaron Thompson,
The Stooges,
Joyce Sims,
Porter Ricks,
Icehouse,
FM Einheit,
Marvin Gaye,
Wire,
Sällskapet,
The Shadows of Knight,
Moby Grape,
Heaven 17,
Ronan,
Neu!,
Public Image Ltd., Public Image Ltd., Public Image Ltd., Public Image Ltd..
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You don't know what you really want.
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You don't know what you really want.
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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.