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 Bahamas and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1963 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Soul Sonic Force to the grunge kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Robert Görl. All the underground hits.
All Monolake 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Blues Magoos record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Trojans,
Sight & Sound,
Nico,
The Zeros,
Banda Bassotti,
The Real Kids,
China Crisis,
Skriet,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Rotary Connection,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Grandmaster Flash,
the Association,
Kerri Chandler,
DNA,
The Gap Band,
Rosa Yemen,
Can,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Slackers,
Blossom Toes,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Moody Blues,
Hashim,
Moebius,
cv313,
Absolute Body Control,
Bobby Womack,
Sparks,
Dead Boys,
The Modern Lovers,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Roxy Music,
The United States of America,
Altered Images,
Matthew Halsall,
Livin' Joy,
Laurel Aitken,
Little Man,
Whodini,
Juan Atkins,
Tears for Fears,
Moss Icon,
Judy Mowatt,
The Selecter,
Chrome,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Heaven 17,
Archie Shepp,
Drive Like Jehu,
48th St. Collective,
Rekid,
Rod Modell,
JFA,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Electric Prunes,
Alison Limerick,
Dave Gahan,
Tomorrow,
Crime,
H. Thieme, H. Thieme, H. Thieme, H. Thieme.
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.