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 Macedonia and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1966 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 guitar 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 Traffic Nightmare to the electroclash 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 Aswad. All the underground hits.
All JFA tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Urselle record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 chamberlin and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Marine Girls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lalo Schifrin,
Eric B and Rakim,
John Holt,
Quando Quango,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Roxy Music,
Gong,
Judy Mowatt,
Gil Scott Heron,
Visage,
Robert Hood,
Ornette Coleman,
Erykah Badu,
Television,
Agitation Free,
Todd Rundgren,
the Swans,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Groovy Waters,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Flesh Eaters,
Slave,
Shoche,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Martian,
Public Enemy,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Albert Ayler,
Heaven 17,
Sugar Minott,
T. Rex,
The Doors,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Smoke,
Stereo Dub,
Maurizio,
Delta 5,
The Names,
Ultimate Spinach,
Y Pants,
Model 500,
Bluetip,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Fugs,
Blossom Toes,
Henry Cow,
Spandau Ballet,
The Pretty Things,
Al Stewart,
The Moody Blues,
Jimmy McGriff,
Make Up,
Marc Almond,
Tomorrow,
Matthew Halsall,
Brass Construction,
Avey Tare,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Youth Brigade,
Sarah Menescal,
Reuben Wilson,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Los Fastidios,
the Fania All-Stars, the Fania All-Stars, the Fania All-Stars, the Fania All-Stars.
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.